IMA offers general medical care, prenatal, vaccination, family planning services and a birth center, to help the poorest of the poor in the Teso region of Uganda.
IMA midwives train local practitioners provide quality prenatal and birth services, as well as general medical care, to increasing numbers of women and children from surrounding poor communities. Through these services, women receive the assistance they need to help ensure safe, healthy pregnancies. The clinic staff also conducts weekly mobile outreach clinics to remote rural areas.
Our birth center allows us to offer special assistance to women during childbirth, increasing the capacity to ensure safe delivery and quick and efficient response to complications during childbirth. Feasible low-cost health interventions are all that is needed to save countless lives of women and babies in Uganda.
Free A Child and its partner organizations develop comprehensive anti-child prostitution and trafficking campaigns that provide appropriate solutions according to the unique cultural context they are working in. With programs in Nepal and Denver, free-a-child fights the serious global issue of child sex trafficking.
In Nepal, Free A Child and its partner agency, General Welfare Pratisthan (GWP), founded the Butterfly Project in May 2001 with the goal of reducing the risk of child trafficking for prostitution and the subsequent spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs in Nepal. Since its inception, the project has involved more than 350 girls living in highly trafficked areas in income generating projects and skills trainings and reached nearly 7,000 people with trafficking awareness messages.
In Denver, Free A Child used funds raised from the generous donors at Escape to Shangri La, their 2006 annual gala, launched a U.S. program in Colorado with their partners Urban Peak. This program provides street outreach, victim sevices, case management and much needed training to law enforcement agencies, homeless shelters, and emergency room personal, Free A Child and its partners are providing a community-based solution to a much overlooked problem.
For more information and also to continue supporting the important work of Free A Child visit their website at www.freeachild.org
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