The Hamsaye Network is a humanitarian aid organization which exists to bring hope through sustainable development to communities around the world.
Hamsaye means ‘neighbor’ in Persian. We endeavor to be good neighbors to the communities we serve in the Middle East and Central Asia, particularly in rural and conflict-affected areas. Our main focus is to provide services that improve the quality of maternal-child healthcare in these communities.
The problem:
300,000 mothers die every year due to complications during labor and birth. This is 1 woman every 2 minutes.
2.3 million newborns die every year during their first month of life. This is 1 baby every 13 seconds.
Most of these deaths are in low- or middle-income countries and most would be completely preventable with skilled birth attendants and basic resources.
At the Hamsaye Network, we believe that the solution is skilled, compassionate midwifery care. Midwifery care could prevent more than 80% of all maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths. Universal access to midwife delivered care would save around 4.3 million lives per year.
Every community in every country has one thing in common: babies are born there. And when midwives are trained there, mothers and babies survive, and whole communities thrive.
How We Help
The Hamsaye Network comes alongside healthcare professionals in resource limited settings to develop leaders and meet their training and resource needs. We run low dose, high frequency trainings (often the Helping Mothers and Babies Survive programs) which address the leading causes of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. We work alongside midwives and clinics to make sure they have the supplies needed to implement their training and provide the highest possible quality of care in their settings.
Our Supply Needs
1 Neonatal Suction Device*: $10
1 Neonatal Ambu Bag*: $39
1 NASG Suit: $85
1 newborn simulator designed to teach basic neonatal resuscitation skills*: $95
1 uterus simulator designed to teach labor and delivery skills*: $280
Translation and printing of a Helping Mothers and Babies Survive class into a new language: $1200
Monthly salary for a local trainer: $200/month
All of our supplies are reusable
*These supplies come from Laerdal Global Health. The prices we list include US tariffs.
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