Save The Mothers

Save the Mothers is an innovative training program designed to equip leaders in the developing world with the skills to become advocates for dying and suffering mothers. Founding executive director Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese, a Canadian obstetrician, launched the multi-disciplinary program in Uganda in 2005 in response to the 525,000 mothers who now die annually from preventable complications of pregnancy and childbirth.

Called “the last un-reached frontier of modern medicine,” maternal deaths claimed the lives of more women in the 20th century than soldiers killed in either world war; and from 1980 to 2000, childbirth claimed more women than AIDS. Many of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa, including 6,000 every year in Uganda, where Save the Mothers has its international training centre.

As of January 2008, this Canadian-Ugandan partnership has75 students either enrolled or graduated. This includes four Ugandan Members of Parliament who are advocating and enacting new laws to protect vulnerable mothers in Uganda. Besides politicians, Save the Mothers trains health care leaders to improve access and care for mothers and babies, lawyers to advocate for women’s rights, journalists to publicize the stories of needy mothers, educators to design and tech curriculum on safe motherhood, and community and faith activists to take the message to their groups.

To learn about how to be an advocate for Save the Mothers, including ordering Dr. Chamberlain Froese’s book Where Have All the Mothers Gone? ($9.99 plus shipping), go to www.savethemothers.org.

To order copies of the book in larger numbers, or to receive any other Save the Mothers promotional material, contact manager at savethemothers (dot) org.

To be put on the Save the Mothers newsletter list, please make the request directly to thomasfroese at thomasfroese (dot) com.