Birth House in Chad
Bern, 19.12.2019
Women’s Hope International is building a birth house in the eastern Chad that will enable women to experience a safe birth and pregnancy care.
Saying goes, that if a woman gets pregnant in Chad, she’s with one foot in the grave. About one in 16 women dies during her pregnancy or childbirth. This high maternal mortality rate is due to multiple causes: Poverty, gender inequality or inadequate infrastructure. Especially the rural and poor regions in eastern Chad are affected by this. Women’s Hope has committed themselves with their local partner organisation (BASE) to strengthen the mother-child health care. It was mutually decided with the local community, to build a birth house to enable more women – also during the rainy season – to get access to prenatal check-ups and medical guidance during their pregnancy.The birth house is going to be built with the innovative Earth-Cal technology. The technology is very suitable for the hot climate in Chad. What’s more, buildings can be built easily with simple means in a very short amount of time. Long sandbags with damp soil inside are being arranged in layers or long spirals. This is how the dome like structures of those houses emerge.
Help us to build this birth house. With only CHF 30 you can provide approximately one meter building material. If you would like to support this cause you can follow this link to the donation side (donation note 'birth house chad').
Women’s Hope International is a Swiss organisation dedicated to improving the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women in Africa and Asia. We are committed to ensuring that all women and girls have access to health care and professional support, particularly during pregnancy and childbirth.
Birth House in Chad
Building Infrastructure to ensure safe pregnancy and child birth.
We provide a birth centre to ensure that pregnant women and fresh mothers have a place to go. This is happening in cooperation with the local population and as a complement to the existing health centre. The local health centre offers far too little space in relation to the population and contradicts all state and hygienic standards. Thus, the existing health centre is currently unable to carry out safe and dignified births. This will change with the birth center of WHI - Pregnancy should no longer be associated with fear of survival.
