EDUCATING WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO REDUCE MATERNAL AND INFANT MORTALITY
Global Midwife Education Foundation’s (GMEF) mission is to reduce maternal and infant mortality and morbidity in rural areas of the developing world. In these isolated communities, poverty and lack of medical care contribute to a greater amount of suffering by women and their children due to easily preventable and treatable illnesses.
GMEF educates women through sustainable, community based, long term education programs. We train women to serve their own communities as midwives, provide them with medications and supplies, and pay them stipends for their work. GMEF’s training programs are structured on evidence based medicine. GMEF also provides scholarships for girls to promote their formal education in order to continue community development for the next generation. GMEF is a 501(c)3 that is financially supported by individuals and foundations who share our vision that all people deserve access to basic healthcare and education.
Our practices are participatory, focused on the specific needs of every community.
GMEF NEWS
GMEF has a midwife training program currently running in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia. We have started to train and supply 50 midwives from this extremely remote and rural area. Read more here.
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