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We would like to announce the winner of our Women Helping Women Award!

Soroptimist International of Ashland
2018 Women Helping Women Award Recipient

The Human Rights & Status of Women Committee is pleased to present this year’s Women Helping Women award to Jennifer Hampton Head, LM. Jennifer is the Executive Director of One World Midwives, and has been a birth professional for more than 15 years.

One World Midwives serves women and families worldwide where the need is greatest. Delivering emergency midwifery aid to those affected by conflict, natural disasters, or lack of women’s healthcare in an effort to reduce infant and maternal mortality.

Jennifer has provided volunteer midwifery services on both sides of the US-Mexico border, Uganda, the Philippines, the Lakota Nation, and most recently at the Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh.

The Women Helping Women Award is given in recognition of the extraordinary impact Jennifer is making in the lives of women and girls all around the world. To honor her work, the committee will award $500.00 to Jennifer’s chosen charity, Midwife Pilgrim, a non-profit she traveled with earlier this year during her trip to Bangladesh.

If you would like to learn more about Jennifer and her work, please attend the May 9th SIA Club meeting, where she will be our guest speaker.

The HRSW Committee

Tackling Childbirth-Related Mortality in the World’s Poorest Place A new program called Global Action to Improve Nursing and Midwifery (GAIN) aims to train Malawian nurses in leadership and clinical skills to help turn the tide on the world's highest rate of preterm births.

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URGENT: Care is starting in a new location next week and we need your help saving lives. One of the women that we have seen, has recently lost her baby in the second trimester. We need funding in order to get the ultrasounds and blood work to check in on these little growing people in hopes of preventing or catching losses early. We need your help to save lives. For only $50, you can save a life. You can offer full perinatal care for one Haitian refugee woman in Tijuana, Mexico. Please donate, like, and share. Please also check out the Amazon wish list and see if you can us help stock up for the upcoming visits. https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/ref=cm_reg_rd-upd?ie=UTF8&id=24512TOGVCN2V&type=wishlist

Click here to support Haitian Refugee Midwifery Care organized by Jennifer Hampton Head One World Midwives For only $50 you can make sure that one woman can receive quality comprehensive midwifery care by making sure she can recieve,  labwork, ultrasounds, medications and supplements, as needed, in a safe and clean location.  Midwives in the shelters Happy mamas! As a consequenc...

For only $50 you can make sure that one woman can receive quality comprehensive midwifery care by making sure she can recieve labwork, ultrasounds, medications and supplements, as needed, in a safe and clean location. Please donate, and share today.
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