International Midwife Assistance

NEWS

January 20, 2010

LONG-TIME VOLUNTEER RETURNS TO UGANDA WITH IMA

Marion Volunteer midwife Marion Toepke McLean, CNM, has gone to work in Soroti, Uganda, with the Teso Safe Motherhood Project. She will spend January, February, and some of March at the clinic there. Marion has been a practicing midwife in the U.S. since 1971 but also offers extensive experience with IMA in the developing world. Marion first volunteered with IMA and traveled to Afghanistan in 2006, where she traveled around the rural province of Bamiyan teaching midwives and doctors IUD insertion techniques. In 2007, she traveled to Soroti for the first time to help our then fledgling maternity program. Today, she returns to our health clinic where the birth center is now well established. This time she will be able to share her expertise in family planning with Joyce Aedeke who is in charge of Teso Safe Motherhood’s new expanded family planning program. Marion will send us regular updates about news from the clinic, and we are looking forward to sharing them with you.

Click here to read A Difficult Breech Birth written by Marion McLean about IMA’s lifesaving work in Uganda and published in the latest edition of Midwifery Today.

MIDWIFERY TODAY SHOWCASES IMA IN LATEST PUBLICATION

A Difficult Breech Birth
"Jennifer Braun, Colorado midwife and director of International Midwife Assistance and the Teso Safe Motherhood Clinic, was at her desk in the clinic in Soroti, Uganda, one morning, focused on paperwork . . . Two babies had already been born that day, and a third mom who had birthed the night before was still there with her baby. Midwives Alice Esabu and Bernadette Okello were busy with their care. The moms who had come for prenatals waited patiently outside. Glancing up, Jennifer watched as a woman in labor came through the door. She noted that the mother was bearing down as she came past the desk. Some time passed, then she heard Berna yell, 'Get Jennifer!' She ran back to find the woman with a breech baby delivered to the umbilicus . . ."Click here to read the rest of the article!

December 9, 2009

IMA WINTER NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED

Our latest newsletter is packed full of the latest news about IMA. Please read our December newsletter to learn more about the following:

IMA's newest medical outreach initiative
New ways to help our program in Uganda
A review of our services rendered in 2008 and 2009
How we've greatly expanded our reach and impact in 2009
And much more!

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December 1, 2009

NOW 100% OF YOUR ONLINE DONATION COMES TO IMA

IMA has begun an exciting new partnership with Giving First, a branch of the Community First Foundation. Giving First has a grant to support not for profits, so now IMA won't have to pay any more fees to credit card companies! Every dollar you donate online with a credit card now comes to IMA. It's a fabulous and valuable service. We are so happy to be partnering with Giving First. It works every time you click the "Donate Now" button on IMA's website. When you see the Giving First logo, you know the charity does not pay transaction fees.

Go to straight to our donate page in Giving First or click on the "Donate Now" link from our website. From all of us at IMA, thank you for your support!