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Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
 

 

Bev-Strand

Bev Strand, 2006

Organization: Beacon House/Families-in-Transition Support Network (USA)
Role: Fundraising Chair
Vision: Facilitating services to help low income families
Inspiring Challenge: Food for local homeless kids
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Improve Maternal Health (5)
Accomplishment:
Owned and managed two retail stores that employed a team of young women who needed jobs


Bhavana Chawla 2005

Bhavana Chawla, 2005

Organization: Revive with Bhavana (USA)
Role: Coach
Vision: Women's health and well-being
Millennium Development Goal: Improve Maternal Health (5)


Blanche-Angeline-Pitt

Blanche Angeline Pitt, 2010

Organization: African Medical and Research Foundation (Tanzania)
Role: Tanzania Country Director
Vision: Opening access to health care by including rural communities in decision making
Millennium Development Goal: Improve Maternal Health (5)


Isha-Daramy-Kabia

Isha Daramy Kabia, 2011

Organization: Mother and Child Health Centre Magbil, Lunsar (Sierra Leone)
Role: Director and Founder and Member
Vision: To help reduce the infant and maternal morbidity and Mortality rate in Sierra Leone
Inspiring Challenge: Build another Health center that will serve pregnant women and their newborn from hundred surrounding villages. (by November 20, 2013)
Millennium Development Goal: Reduce Child Mortality (4); Improve Maternal Health (5); Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases (6)
Accomplishments:
- UK Midwife of the Year award in 2008.
- Changing the lives of women in the community of Magbil, Sierra Leone.


Janette Robinson Flint

Janette Robinson Flint, 2007

Organization: Black Women for Wellness (USA)
Role: Executive Director
Vision: Provide accessible healthcare for black women
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Improve Maternal Health (5)


Prossy-Kiddu-Namyalo

Prossy Kiddu Namyalo, 2009

Organization: Save for Health (Uganda)
Role: Coordinator
Vision: A community where women have financial access to quality health care
Inspiring Challenge: 2000 women managing their enterprises
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Improve Maternal Health (5)


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Raihana Popalzai, 2006

Organization: Kabul University (Afghanistan)
Role: Dean of the Women's Council, Head of Library and Professor of Science
Vision: Begin a Women's Studies Department at Kabul University
Millennium Development Goal: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Improve Maternal Health (5)
Accomplishment: Formed a new Women's Center at Kabul University in May 2007


Venkata-Sandhya

Sandhya Puchalapalli, 2008

Organization: Aarti Home (India)
Role: Founder and President
Vision:
Ensure that women survive and are empowered to exercise choices over their lives
Inspiring Challenge: Work to fulfill our vision through Aarti Home
Millennium Development Goal: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty (1); Achieve Universal Primary Education (2); Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women (3); Reduce Child Mortality (4); Improve Maternal Health (5)
Accomplishments:
- All of the girls in Bayanapalli, a nearby village with a previously high dropout rate, are now going to school.
- Aarti Home has been able to expand its tailoring and vocational training programs to women in Kadapa and the surrounding areas.
- Winner of the 2012 Leader of Impact Award with more than 8,000 votes.


Sister Margaret Aringo

Sister Margaret Aringo, 2007

Organization: Association of Consecrated Women of Eastern and Central Africa (Kenya)
Role: Chairperson
Vision: Empower women to seek wholeness of life through community health center
Millennium Development Goal: Improve Maternal Health (5); Ensure Environmental Sustainability (7)


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