In April, Saving Mother’s Founder & President, Nichole Young-Lin, returned to Guatemala to follow up on Saving Mothers’ Birthing Kit Initiative there. After having distributed 40 birthing kits to comadronas in San Juan and Santiago, we wanted to evaluate how the kits were used and the comadrona’s perception of the kits.
Nichole conducted evaluations [...]

In the past three weeks, Saving Mothers’ Team members, Danielle Peress and Nichole Young-Lin, distributed a total of 40 birthing kits to comadronas (traditional midwives) in Guatemala. The program started off with a birthing kit distribution and training meeting on January 7th. Fifteen comadronas attended the meeting and received Saving Mothers’ birthing kits, which contain [...]

Saving Mothers’ team of obstetrician-gynecologists spent the past week in rural Guatemala, marking the start of Saving Mothers’ new POWHER (Providing Outreach in Women’s Health and Educational Resources) program.
On the ground, our team provided general obstetric and gynecological care to the women in the community. When a 44 year-old woman came into the clinic with [...]