For decades, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), the largest Protestant church in Ethiopia, struggled to provide essential health, education, and agricultural development services to nearly 4 million people in rural southwest Ethiopia. In 2000, we joined them to fight a health crisis of monumental proportions. Read More
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cbrh program
In rural southwest Ethiopia, staying healthy is a constant struggle. Most villagers have no access to basic services, to reproductive health care, to clean drinking water. And the sick are forced to walk days to inadequate health care facilities that lack doctors, drugs—even the most common medical supplies. With help from PPGG, EECMY has been able to bridge this gap with an expanded Community-Based Reproductive Health (CBRH) program that brings trained community volunteers to villages that desperately need family planning and reproductive health services and education. Read More
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Maternity Village
A critical, immediate need in rural Ethiopia is for modern health care for pregnant women and girls. Pregnancy is a very common, very high-risk condition in poor villages, where women bear an average of 6 children over the span of their short lives.
Poor nutrition, chronic illness, and FGM often cause extensive pregnancy-related complications, difficult labors—and even death. With so few skilled personnel to provide prenatal and childbirth services—only 6% of women have this support while giving birth—a staggering 1 in 14 Ethiopian women dies from pregnancy-related causes. And over 1 in 10 babies die at birth.
To reverse this tragedy, EECMY established a maternity waiting village next to the Hosanna district hospital where women undergoing high-risk pregnancies can receive daily monitoring from health professionals while awaiting an assisted hospital birth. Now in disrepair, this village will be restored to a modern birthing and family planning center through EECMY and PPGG's partnership. Help us realize this dream of women's health and empowerment. Read More
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