Light Up Malawi

At the Mauwa Health Centre, expectant mothers must bring their own candles or kerosene for lighting. With your help we’ll be able ensure more women can give more births with the proper electricity, equipment and care needed to save the lives of mothers and children.

Help us raise funds to provide immediate energy support for the Mauwa Health Centre, and help it grow from an unpowered 10 bed building to a 60 bed resource that enables nighttime service and powered healthcare equipment. We will need $60,000 to do this project properly, but every small donation takes us a long way!

On average, Mauwa Health Centre serves 245 ant-natal cases, 420 malaria cases, 105 deliveries and 24 referral cases per month. With only 10 beds available, admission is currently only available for deliveries. If all 105 average deliveries per month were evenly spaced and timed, each mother would receive a little over 2 days of in-patient care (for labor and delivery). But deliveries are rarely well timed, and lack of energy and inadequate space denies many critical patients the care they need.

Potential Long Term Impact

You will raise the standard of care for Malawi Health Centres by delivering a larger, sterile environment for improved infant mortality, lights for nighttime service and security, and resources that will educate and propagate knowledge districtwide.

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