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Give the Gi of Life

Holiday Gift Catalog

Photo Credit: Anne She


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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

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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)

Photo Credit: Katherine Meese


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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

P, UT 84603

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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