{"id":18543,"date":"2017-03-07T17:26:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=18543"},"modified":"2017-03-07T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T17:26:48","slug":"cardiff-charity-helping-african-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2017\/03\/07\/cardiff-charity-helping-african-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff charity helping African mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CARDIFF charity is helping to provide medication for women in Sub-Saharan Africa in a bid to reduce maternal mortality rates.<br \/>\nLife for African Mothers helps women in the Southern part of the continent to help give birth safely and without any complications.<br \/>\nAngela Gorman, 68, started Life For African Mothers in 2005 after watching a Panorama report on maternal mortality in Chad.<br \/>\nMs Gorman said: \u201cI was a neonatal nurse here in Cardiff. The report was called Dead Mums Don\u2019t Cry and I had actually come across it by accident.<br \/>\n\u201cI was so shocked by what I saw, I contacted the BBC and they put me in touch with all of the other people who had contacted them.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen they knew we were going out there, they rang us and told us that they were sending a film crew out with us.<br \/>\n\u201cFive months later, I was sitting in a hospital in Chad and I was seeing what I had seen on the TV. As a result, we ended up starting up the charity.&#8221;<br \/>\nAs well as sending out medication to hospitals, Life for African Mothers sends midwives to train hospital staff. This equips them with the skills needed to deliver children safely.<br \/>\nAccording to the World Health Organisation, 99% of maternal deaths occur in developing countries and more than half of these occur in Sub-Saharan Africa.<br \/>\nMs Gorman said: \u201cThe medication we send out to help prevent women from dying in childbirth is very specific. We receive it from a pharmaceutical company and last year we sent out 400,000 tablets to prevent women dying.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019ve stood this close to a woman as I am to you now. I looked her in the eyes knowing that without that medicine, she and her baby wouldn\u2019t be alive. We\u2019re told by experts in the field that no one else is providing this medicine on a regular basis, or training midwives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/O1v36\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/O1v36\">Life for African Mothers<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nAssia Kayoueche, 25, who works for the charity said that she became involved with it after falling on hard times.<br \/>\n\u201cAngela is a good friend of mine and suggested that I start volunteering. I got really attracted to the mission of the charity \u00a0and decided to carry on working for it,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nMs Gorman has witnessed many distressing incidents as women gave birth during her time in Liberia.<br \/>\nA recent case she recalls is a woman who was in labour. Her mother was beating her with a stick because she believed that the woman wasn\u2019t pushing hard enough. The baby died after an unsuccessful resuscitation attempt.<br \/>\nMs Kayoueche said: \u201cIt\u2019s all down to the value of women. Women aren\u2019t dying from diseases, they\u2019re dying because society has decided that they\u2019re not worth treating.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s terrible because over 300,000 women a year are dying from maternal mortality and it can be prevented. That\u2019s why this charity is so important because no one else is doing what we are doing.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Gorman was also inspired to set-up the charity because her grandmother died during childbirth.<br \/>\nShe said: \u201cIt was my grandmother\u2019s eleventh pregnancy. This was in a small house in the Welsh Valleys.<br \/>\n\u201cMy father grew up without a mother. We all grew up hearing from him what it was like for him not having his mother in his life.<br \/>\n\u201cOn the centenary of her death, we managed to get hold of her death certificate and we learnt that both she and the baby died of postpartum haemorrhage, which is what we are providing the medication for.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The charity is based on Penarth Road currently has has three members of staff. Ms Gorman said they have do not have an investor and they are funded entirely on public donations. <\/span><br \/>\nShe said: \u201cThere is three of us at the moment, including myself and Assia. It\u2019s become a passion for all of us but the charity is running on a shoestring. But we see that as a challenge, not an obstacle.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Kayoueche said that despite only being a small charity, working for it felt like being part of a family.<br \/>\nShe said: \u201cThe volunteers are amazing and that\u2019s the best thing about working for the charity. It just doesn\u2019t feel like you\u2019re working at all.<br \/>\n\u201cBy knowing that we are all making a difference by knitting baby clothes, providing medicine and proving midwifery training. It\u2019s just so rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To find out more about Life For African Mothers, visit <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeforafricanmothers.org\">www.lifeforafricanmothers.org<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">V<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">isit their Facebook page at \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LifeForAfricanMothers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.facebook.com\/LifeForAfricanMothers<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CARDIFF charity is helping to provide medication for women in Sub-Saharan Africa in a bid to reduce maternal mortality rates. Life for African Mothers helps women in the Southern part of the continent to help give birth safely and without any complications. Angela Gorman, 68, started Life For African Mothers in 2005 after watching a Panorama report on maternal mortality in Chad. Ms Gorman said: \u201cI was a neonatal nurse here in Cardiff. 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