Thanks to our partners and amazing supporters, more women, children and young people are getting crucial support from community health groups and our other pivotal projects.
Last year marked Women and Children First’s twentieth anniversary – a quiet celebration.
Because this is not about us.
It has been about the women, children and young people, who still face daily challenges that can kill, harm or hold them back.
It has been about the local communities we work with to overcome these challenges.
You will have heard far more about the 12,300,000 people from these rural, remote communities and the extraordinary activities they have led.
These have saved the lives of 6,500 women, children and young people and enabled 400,000 to achieve their potential.
Our projects in 2021 included:
Amhara, Ethiopia – Established women’s health groups providing local communities access to family planning and sexual and reproductive health services.
Goro Woreda, Ethiopia – Provided pregnant women with personalised health calendars to increase uptake of antenatal, postnatal and child immunisation appointments.
Mathare and Kibera, Kenya – Supported a participatory research study to understand male engagement in child health and nutrition in urban informal settlements.
Zanzibar, Tanzania – Supported and trained the Ministry of Health and INGO partners to design and implement network of community health groups for maternal and newborn health.
Faridpur, Bangladesh – Established community health groups to test whether they can help address the rates of preventable childhood injuries, such as drowning, electrocution and burns.
Ntchisi District, Malawi – Supported partners to adapt community health groups to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
Women, children and young people will remain central to our work as we position, prepare and power-up to support even more communities to take action. Read more in our new strategy.
Your support will be vital, and we look forward to working together to ensure all women, children and young people can survive and thrive.
Thank you.