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PROMISE is a consortium Promoting Maternal, newborn, Infant and child Sustainable health Efforts that has been implemented by three organisations: Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC), the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), and Emmanuel International Canada (EIC). With the financial support of Global Affairs Canada, the purpose of this project is to reduce maternal and child mortality in developing countries through three interrelated and interconnected intermediate outcomes, namely; improved delivery of essential health services to mothers, pregnant women, newborns and children under five.
The Promoting Maternal, Newborn, Infant and Child Sustainable Health Efforts (PROMISE) project, now in its third and final year, is nearly complete and the success of the work, provided through a unique Canadian consortium of charities, undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada, has saved and changed the lives of many newborns and mothers in Africa.
In Ghana, Malawi and Rwanda, an integrated approach focusing on health-service delivery and utilisation, as well as improved nutrition, has changed the lives of families and communities. Stigmas around using health clinics, along with including fathers in maternal and newborn care, unheard of due to outdated attitudes in the past, has now led to a dramatic improvement in child mortality rates.
The stories that exemplify the changes will be shown in a documentary being released this March and on Feb. 27 a preview will give the world a look at what the PROMISE project has accomplished, through the real-life people who have been impacted. The date of this press conference also coincides with World NGO Day and as such is an opportunity to celebrate this unique consortium of NGOs working together to help Africa.
Canada has been blessed in regard to healthcare and access to delivery services at childbirth.
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