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Saving Lives – One Mother And One Baby At A Time

August 15, 2019 by msdev2019

Women being trained in Birth Life Saving Skills (BLiSS)

In Herat, Afghanistan, there are 100,000 Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs), who have moved to the camps outside the city from all over the country of Afghanistan. They come here because of the insecurity of their own town or because of the drought in their region. They are refugees within their own country. These families have left everything in the hopes of basic survival. The needs of pregnant women are especially acute in these areas as they hope to not lose yet another baby.  

This year, Morning Star has been sending a team of four trainers into these make-shift camps to teach Birth Life Saving Skills (BLiSS) to men and women. Families continue to bear children in these camps and have a less successful birthrate than those who live in the villages. 

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Hope Family Medicine Afghanistan

May 2, 2019 by msdev2019

Transforming the Medical Infrastructure of a Nation

Afghanistan still has one of the highest maternal and child mortality rates in the world, according to the World Health Organization.

Morning Star Development is striving to change this reality through programs like Hope Family Medicine Afghanistan (HFMA), a three-year residency program to train local Afghan doctors. These doctors are being trained to give modern, scientific primary care in a context where strong ethical values are modeled by Afghan and expat teachers.

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