Stories of Impact
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Takonda is pictured here with Nitta’s (one of our nurses). Takonda’s mother bled to death just after delivering her, leaving Takonda and two other young children motherless. Takonda and her two year old brother now live with their maternal aunt. Currently, Takonda is thriving in her aunt’s care with the support from our nurses, and
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17 Babies were admitted in July. The mothers of 13 of these babies died just after their births. The mothers of 4 of these babies are not producing any milk, including 1 set of premature twins. Nurses visited 155 babies 70 of the 248 babies currently in our care are receiving formula, 250 tins of
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Chisomo weighed less than 5lbs at birth and his mother died just moments after his first cry. His low birth weight and his status as an orphan meant that from day one, Chisomo was much more likely to die in early childhood than his peers. Thankfully, his grandmother was directed to Joyful Motherhood and has
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Faith Kapanga was born on 21st Oct 2016. She was a healthy baby. She was her mother’s first child. When she was just one week old, her mother who was only 20 years old herself, died from a severe postpartum infection. In Malawi even babies born in excellent health face a high probability of dying
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We see a lot of premature babies, and many of them are multiples, like twins or even triplets. One set of twins, born prematurely at home in December were a boy and a girl weighing only 2 and a half pounds each. Mom took the babies immediately to Bwaila Hospital where the staff referred them
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A full term birth, Little Lewis was born in the District Hospital on New Year’s Day. However, mom was diagnosed shortly after with peritonitis, an abdominal infection and was found positive for malaria. Despite being transferred to the ICU for care, her condition deteriorated, and sadly, she passed away two weeks later. Lewis was referred
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Just outside of town, on the outskirts of Linlongwe, a 19 year old first time mother was rushed to the hospital after her water broke prematurely, where she subsequently gave birth to a baby girl named “Zani”, weighing only 5lbs. Within two days mom and baby were discharged home, but her breast milk did not