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Give the Gi of Life
Holiday Gift Catalog
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About Safe Mothers, Safe BabiesSafe Mothers, Safe Babies (SAFE) believes that pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood
should be protected mes of growth and development, regardless of where someone is born o
the locaon in which he/she lives. We also believe that the most successful, sustainable way to
achieve this moral imperave is to work WITH, rather than for, the people who currently do not
enjoy such freedoms.
To this end, we invite you to help us in giving the Gi of Life. Simply read through the
projects we are currently undertaking in partnership with rural Ugandan communies, and
choose the ones you would most like to support as gis for your loved ones. For each purchase,
you can designate an individual to whom SAFE will send a personalized honor card, detailing
the life-saving gi you have made in their honor and all that the gi will accomplish.
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Empowering women with educaon
and business opportunies.
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Improving health through life-giving
light and community health fairs.
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Transforming communies through
community-organized outreaches
and working with mens groups.
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Improving health centers through
medical training, supplies, andtechnology.
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Dear Friend,
When you reect on the Holidays, what comes to mind?
Family? Friends? Good food, presents, and fun mes? My
own childhood was lled with all of these things, and I look
forward to making new memories with my loved ones every
year.
But what if our lives werent so blessed? What if you or I
had been born in a dierent part of the world, where
poverty and disease were a regular part of a harsh reality?
Uganda is one such place, where poverty is common, where
children face malnutrion and disease, and where women
face dying while trying to bring life into the world.
Through our work in Uganda, SAFE seeks to empower
women and their families to change this reality. Working
with them, via hand-in-hand partnership, SAFE seeks to
understand the problems that rural communies face from
their perspecve, and work with them to solve these
problems in long-term and community-sustainable ways.
This Holiday season, we invite you to help us Give the
Gi of Life to women, children, and families in Uganda. Any
contribuon you feel able to make will be very muchappreciated.
Thank you, in advance, for your support!
Sincerely,
Jacqueline Cus
Founding President and CEO
Safe Mothers, Safe Babies
Photo Credit: Katherine Meese
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Women: The Backbone of Society
Women bear children, grow crops, and care for
families. On average, they produce 75 to 80% of the
food. Yet, they earn only 10% of the income, very
rarely own land, and quite frequently have very few
rights in comparison to their male counterparts.
Empowering women to earn money, make informed
decisions, and have the rights and support to exercise
their choices is essential to helping Uganda and her
people defeat poverty.
SAFE works to empower women by working with
womens groups. Women's groups are powerful, as
they provide a place where women can speak openly
and honestly about the challenges they face during
pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood, and more
generally as women living in a patriarchal and agrarian
society. They can identify common problems, and
devise innovative and sustainable approaches to
addressing them as a collective group. Some
examples of the work we do together include:
educating communities about reproductive health
through dramas and songs, undertaking maternal
health outreaches, providing co-operative business
opportunities to improve income, and providing organic
farming training and supplies to improve nutrition.
In response to her involvement in one of these
womens groups, Babirye Mariam, mother of seven,
exclaimed: The group that has been formed by SAFE
has empowered us to come together as women and
share a number of issues which has enabled
development in our homes! 2
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The group that has been formed by SAFE has empowered us to come together as
women and share a number of issues which has enabled development in our homes
(Babirye Mariam, age: 38, mother of 7)
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Sponsor a womens group to teach an
enre community about good health.
Your contribuon will provide training,
to the womens groups group, along
with educaonal materials for
outreach, and items the women will
use to put on at least two events,
which will reach roughly 200400
men, women, and children.
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Provide a business opportunity to a
womans group. Seen in the picture are
Mama Kits. These kits include all the
necessary supplies for a clean birth,
required for women to deliver in a
health center. Womens groups can
make these kits and sell them cheaper
than they are sold commercially, which
improves income and healthcare! Your
contribuon provides business training
and all the seed money for inial
inventory.
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$40 Suggested Contribution $100 Suggested Contribution
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SAFE works in rural communies
where people rely on subsistence
agriculture. The plants they farm
maize and ricelack important
vitamins and minerals. To deal with
this challenge, we work with
communies on crop diversicaon.
Your contribuon will purchase organic
seeds (passion fruit, eggplant,
peanuts), supplies, and training.
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$200 Whole Garden
$10 Organic Seeds
3SAFE 2012 practicum student Haseena Sahib with community group members in a passion fruit
garden whose construction was funded by contributors to SAFEs 2011 Holiday Catalog fundraiser.
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A community health outreach held on December 25, 2011, that
provided immunizaons to more than 200 women and children.
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One Solar Suitcase can provide life-saving light for up
to 400 deliveries per yearthats 400 women, at least
400 babies, and thehealthcare providers
that help them through
the process of birth.
Addionally, SAFE
undertakes outreach in
recipient communies
to increase ulizaon
of the technology. You can be the light that saves
many lives!
$1,500 One Solar Suitcase
$100 Promotional Outreach
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It is far easier, cheaper, and healthier to prevent
disease than it is to treat it. That is why SAFE partners
with health centers and rural communies in Uganda
to host community health fairs. Each fair not only
provides immunizaons for women and children, but
also health educaon through the performances of
partnered womens groups, an opportunity to create
linkages between the community and its local health center,
and the ability to promote other projects, thereby improving
health in many ways. Your contribuon will cover one health
fair, reaching between 200 and 400 people.
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$200 One Health Fair
$20 Immunizations for 20
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Celebrating Women: A Community Affair
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For women and children to really enjoy good health and
development, all members of the community must believe in
and work to accomplish that goal. That is why SAFE works with
the entirety of rural communitiesboth women and men. For
the past two years, we have been honored to participate in
community-organized celebrations of International Womens
Day amongst other, similar events.
At International Womens Day 2011, communities decided
on the theme Produce the Children You Can Support. The
2012 theme was Deliver in a Health Center. Both celebrations
were planned by both men and women, and included
immunizations, disease testing and treatment, educational
songs and dramas, even a bicycle race and a village walk.
Regarding her experience of International Womens Day,
one woman, Mutesi Fazina remarked: I was excited to be the
winner amongst all who participated at the [International]
Womens Day Event Celebrations. That has never happened in
my life.
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Support communies in their
eorts to promote and ght for
womens and child rights. Your
contribuon will produce
educaonal materials, adverse
the event, and purchase
immunizaons, making a truly
moving occasion!
$100 Suggested Contribution
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I was excited to be the winner amongst all who participated at the [International]
Womens Day Event Celebrations. That has never happened in my life.
-Mutesi Fazina, International Womens Day Participant
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We discussed the family
planning, and decided that
we should only have the
number of children that we
can support.
-Conclusion of mens family
planning debate.
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While women are the ones birthing babies, it is oen other family membersincluding
husbands, grandmothers, and grandfathersthat make birthing decisions or are responsible for
raising the money to pay for services. Safe Mothers, Safe Babies recognizes that to truly impact maternal
and child health, both men and women must be educated in, supporve of, and empowered to pracce
healthy behaviors. That is why SAFE works with mens groups and co-ed development associaons in
ways that they request, usually by providing them with health educaon and agricultural educaon, and
working with them on projects related to safe water, sanitaon, and health center infrastructure.
Following a mens community debate on family planning, one man recounted: We discussed the family
planning, and decided that we should only have the number of children that we can support.
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$100 Support a Mens Group $20 Sponsor a Training
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Save a Life Support a Health Center
The safest place for a baby in Uganda to be born is in
a health center with trained healthcare professionals and
appropriate medical supplies. Thus, as important as it is to
empower women, prevent public health problems, and increase
community support of maternal and child health, it is essential
to strengthen the health centers that provide care. Thus, SAFE
provides essential medical technology and supplies to those
health centers that serve the communities where we work, and
seeks to improve the infrastructure in those health centers (for
example, repairing the broken window in the picture to the
right). Help save a life by supporting a health center this holiday
season!
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$10 Medical Supplies $20 Medication
$50 Medical Training $100 Building Improvement
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Thank you, in advance, for helping SAFE give the Gift of Life this Holiday season!
Meet SAFEs Program Manager:
Mukalu Mohamed (Medie)
Mukalu Muhamed--or Medie, as he is
affectionately known--is the Safe
Mothers, Safe Babies in-country Program
Manager. He is responsible for the day-
to-day execution, evaluation, and
improvement of projects on the ground.
He also facilitates our internship
program, site visits, and other activities
related to the complete functioning of the
organization. Medie started out with
SAFE first as a volunteer translator in
2008, then stepped into the role of full-
time Program Manager in the summer of
2010.
Educate the Next Generation of Public Health Leaders:
Support Medies MPH Degree
Medie is one of the most dedicated maternal and child health advocates we have ever
met, and we are thrilled to have him as part of the SAFE team. In true leader-like fashion, Medie
would like to pursue his masters degree, with a focus in maternal and child health, so that he can
serve Ugandan communities even better. There is a program in Uganda called Save the Mothers,
which will allow Medie to pursue his Master of Public Health Leadership with a focus in maternal
and child health through Uganda Christian University. The program is specially designed for
working professionals, and is structured into three 3-week modules per year for two years. SAFE
would like to contribute to his education, as we know that he will return that contribution to
Ugandan women and children ten-fold in the years to come. We invite you to join us in supporting
Medies education, for the long-term development of maternal and child health in Uganda.
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$550 One Semesters Tuition $100 Books and Supplies
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Empower Women Community Teaching
$40.00
Business Opportunies for 20 Women $100.00
Community Garden $200.00
Organic Seeds (per kg) $10.00
Improve Health Solar Suitcase $1,500.00
Promoonal Outreach $100.00
Community Health Fair $200.00
Immunizaons for 20 $20.00
Transform
Communies
Community Outreach $100.00
Mens Group $100.00
Training $20.00
Special Endeavors Medical Supplies $10.00
Medicaon $20.00
Medical Training $50.00
Building Improvement $100.00
One-Semester Graduate School Fees
$550.00
Books and Supplies $100.00
General Contribuon (where needed most)
Total Amount Enclosed $
*Please Note: Every aempt will be made to ulize your gi as indicated. If, however, your selected project is already
appropriately funded, your donaon will be given to whichever program needs it most. Thank you for your support!
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P.O. Bx 2205
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Mail in your check, cash,
or money order to:
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If you would like a personalized honor card to be sent to any family or friends, detailing your contribuon as a gi in their
behalf, please list their names and addresses below.
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T y y !
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