UGANDA

1. Program for Accessible Health Communication and Education (PACE) Formerly PSI Uganda: $25,000
PACE will implement a second year of the targeted campaign aimed at reducing maternal mortality among rural women in Mubende district in Uganda, targeting pregnant women in seven sub-counties of Mubende district, reaching those not previously covered in the first year of funding, thus addressing the unmet need. The new Mama Kit survival kit, distributed and sold by MAMA Ambassadors, contains a safe and clean delivery pack for the mother, Oral rehydration salts, Zinc-and a home-based water treatment product WaterGuard to prevent diarrhea, medicine to prevent post-partum hemorrhage and malaria education.

Note: Your $25 donation supports TEN Safe MAMA Kits!

2. Straight Talk Foundation: $20,000
In northern Uganda, in the Kitgum and Gulu Districts. MAIA will continue to fund the Gulu Youth Center’s program in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Interventions. This program provides counseling and medical support to survivors of community and family conflict in a region of the country torn by war. In 2009 they will increase recruitment of survivors and address other issues, such as HIV and pregnancy. Below is a photo of the counseling team at the Gulu Youth Center.

Note: Your $100 donation helps provide medical treatment and psychosocial counseling to men and women who have been sexually or physically abused within their communities.

3. The Railways Children Primary School: $6,818
This grant will allow Principal Olivia Muhumuza to continue the Life Skills and Health Education Program for boys and girls in upper primary school aged 12 or older in HIV prevention, personal hygiene training, and prevention of gender violence. The peer educators and one of the head teachers for the program are seen below.

Note: Your $75 donation supports the attendance of one child in the program.

 

4. Save the Mothers, $20,000
This international NGO is committed to partnerships that promote the health and dignity of mothers in developing countries. Through a leading Uganda university, this leadership development program trains professionals in such disciplines as media, nursing and parliament, to become advocates and influencers of change in social, legislative and educational policy that addresses safe childbirth and reduced maternal mortality.

RWANDA

5. NTD/Access Project in Rwanda - a joint effort of the Glaser Progress Foundation/Columbia University: $25,000
Improved maternity care in the Ngeruka sector of the Bugesera district, Rwanda. The new Ngeruka health center is expected to be completed by December this year. The first MAIA grant enabled the team to upgrade the maternity facilities at the Ngeruka health post and the Mareba Health Center. As a result, enrollment in prenatal care and faculty based deliveries increased by 40%. The Access program will use this second grant to equip and staff the new Ngeruka reproductive health ward, to be composed of the family planning room, the antenatal consultation room, the waiting room, the labor room, the delivery room and post delivery room.

We need your help in sustaining these programs. Every dollar goes towards the grants thus, 100% of your donation is tax deductible.  Please consider a generous donation to MAIA by visiting our website and donating online or by sending your contribution to: The MAIA Foundation, Inc 229 Brannan Street #5J San Francisco, CA  94107Â

THANK YOU!
From Barbara and Laureen DeBuono, Co-Founders, The MAIA Foundation