Friends- My mother was a matwòn, a traditional midwife with no formal training and I grew up observing births. In Haiti there are too many women who die from lack of skilled care. I wanted to learn how to save their lives. I first became an auxiliare nurse. While I was
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Midwives For Haiti: Top 6 of 2017
Here’s our best of 2017, from social media to stories from Haiti: 1. Nevertheless, she persisted. Our Founder and Executive Director receives the Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Nurse Midwives. Watch the introduction and Nadene’s emotional speech. 2. Nevertheless, midwives persisted. The Carrie Wortham
The Stories That Need To Be Told
There have been two maternal deaths here in the past two weeks. There have been just as many near misses. There are women at the hospital right now whom might soon fall into either of the above categories. There have been several sets of twins born, several normal births, many
Small Business Saturday: You Buy, They Donate
This Small Business Saturday, when you support the following businesses, Midwives For Haiti will get a portion of the proceeds. Happy shopping! 1. Wildflower & Oak: For every gorgeous baby blanket you buy, they donate a Clean Delivery Kit so that a rural
“The Real Haiti” – A Volunteer Spends 2 Weeks At Our Rural Birth Center
“You are going to see the real Haiti”, they told me. So here I am in Cabestor. Beautiful, lush, green farmland. Trees. Friendly people. Super sweet kids. Farm animals everywhere. Motos. Kompa music and Creole voices calling out, laughing, singing. Roosters crowing. I think this will be an amazing
Big News: Wedding Bells + New Executive Director
You might have heard the beautiful news that our Executive Director, Nadene Brunk, and our Medical Director, Dr. Steve Eads, got married last week! Nadene and Steve have dedicated much of the past ten years to Midwives For Haiti, and somewhere along this journey, they fell in love! It was
The Washington Post & More: Latest Stories On Midwives For Haiti
1. “I saw a lot of women who died during delivery, but I did not know how to help them.” “Regulus was trained through a program operated by Midwives for Haiti. With funding from Every Mother Counts, a New York-based nonprofit founded by Christy Turlington Burns, and other donors, the
Update: Hurricane Irma + Haiti
Many supporters have reached out to us for news about Hurricane Irma as it approached Haiti. As we saw last year from Hurricane Matthew, Haiti, with it’s fragile infrastructure, is particularly vulnerable to natural disasters. We were deeply concerned about Irma– and prepared for the worst. We are relieved to
Bernard Forteus, Traditional Birth Attendant, Haiti
Bernard has been catching babies in rural Haiti since 1978, when he was 25 years old. His mom was also a traditional birth attendant, or matwòn, and one day a woman came to their house when she wasn’t home. “So, I delivered the baby. That’s how I began.” He’s 64
“So, What Do You Do All Day?”
I am honored to be the In-Country Director for Midwives for Haiti, based out of our central office, school, and home here in Hinche in the Central Plateau. My friends, family and many of the volunteers that come to visit our office in Hinche always ask me the same question: