Empowering Women in E. Africa
Project Host
CHASE Africa
Revenue
CHASE Africa
Charity Number
£959,423
Project aims
Our projects empower women by giving them the opportunity to have their children by choice and not chance. We run projects that offer primary healthcare and family planning in rural areas in East Africa.
Project description
When a woman can plan the number, timing and spacing of her children, there are multiple benefits for her & her entire family. Her health and her children’s health will improve, she will have more time to look after her children, their life chances will improve and she will have more time for productive work, making her family better off.
There are other health benefits that family planning can bring. A reduction in teenage pregnancies & longer gaps between children reduces low birth weights and stillbirth. Having fewer pregnancies can reduce complications & subsequent health problems caused by multiple births.
Wider benefits include better educational opportunities for children as the chance of completing secondary school is much higher for children from smaller families. Being able to choose when to have children empowers women & enables them to build resilience which is deemed critical in coping with other challenges such as economic hardship and adaption to climate change.
We work with the full backing of the Ministry of Health and hire nurses on a locum basis who generally travel by motorbike to remote rural areas where very few medical services exist.
Contact name
Robin Witt
Phone
07773993023
Email
robinwitt@chaseafrica.org.uk
Website
www.chaseafrica.org.uk
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