No mother, or her baby, should die from preventable causes
At Child.org we champion community-based healthcare solutions to make pregnancies and births safer.
We are…
People Centred
First and foremost, we work with people. Pregnant women, new mums, community health promoters, government staff. We respect their autonomy, dignity, experience and expertise, which inform and shape how we work.
Collaborative
We listen. For successful, sustainable change we need to understand and be led by the communities and health authorities we work with. We need to fit within national reproductive health strategies, so that we can be better partners, collaborate effectively and see impactful change in maternal and neonatal health.
Data Driven
Everything we do is based on evidence. Whether it is designing neonatal health programmes or fundraising activities, we use facts to shape what we do.
AmbitIous
We are a small team with an outsized impact. Split between Nairobi, Meru and Bristol, and supported by a brilliant community of champions, fundraisers and partners, we believe we can catalyse improvements in maternal and child health outcomes in Kenya and beyond.
Our ImpacT
We design and deliver effective solutions to the most pressing challenges in maternal and child health. We are not afraid to shift the focus of our work to make sure we contribute meaningfully and with impact to these challenges. From our first programmes in 2001, we have worked to ensure children are safe, alive and healthy. Whether through school nutrition programmes such as HealthStart, or innovative partnerships to support children’s development and girl’s protection and health.
Now we are focusing our work on maternal and neonatal health. This is for two reasons:
Because the earliest days of life are the most dangerous for children globally and progress towards reducing mortality in this period has stagnated.
Because we are pioneering evidence-based community health solutions with proven impact in this area.
FROM 2019 – 2022, our work saw an increase in:
Women who could identify 5 out of 7 danger signs during pregnancy
Deliveries conducted by
skilled birth attendants
Women who attended all four antenatal sessions
Community based solutions such as pregnant women’s groups offer a cost effective, impactful solution to maternal and neonatal mortality.Through training and supporting community health infrastructures to deliver Pregnant Women’s Groups, we’re seeing meaningful change in key maternal and neonatal health indicators (as above). And it’s not just our own evaluation: government data from 2022 shows that in the regions where we have been running Pregnant Women’s Groups, there has been an increase in antenatal care attendance and deliveries conducted by skilled birth attendants over and above national trends.
Read our impact report to find out more.
Staff/Team Members
Board members
Ben Mason
Dan Magnus
Denis Kongere
Eve Riddle
Karen Stephenson
Mary Mbuo
Rebecca Smith
Thomas Muirhead
Patrons
Melvin Benn
Advisors
Andrew Clarke
Leo McIntosh
