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International Development Program (IDP) - Mama NaMwana

The St John International Office initiated a project running in five countries: Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The project aims to prevent the deaths of mothers and babies from preventable causes during pregnancy, delivery, or within a few days after delivery. In Zimbabwe, the project is being carried out in Mt Hampden in Zvimba in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Child Care. This project began in 2015, and an outreach clinic has also been established to visit various communities in Mt Hampden.

Outreach Clinic

Every year, over 200,000 women and 1 million newborn babies die from maternal health and newborn complications in Sub-Saharan Africa. The primary causes are infections and diseases such as pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhoea, as well as premature and low-weight birth, lack of hygiene, and unsafe labour and delivery conditions. Many of these deaths can be prevented with simple, available, and cost-effective solutions, provided that pregnant women and new mothers receive proper healthcare on time. This is what we aim to achieve through our Outreach clinics by providing information to both mothers and fathers. Currently, we are conducting our outreach clinic in Mt Hampden, and we plan to expand to other areas in the future.

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Mother Shelter

We have managed to built a Mother Shelter in Mt Hampden to cater for pregnant women who come from places far away from the clinic. The Shelter enables them to come and wait for their time for child birth which decreases home births.