Survival Happiness Interventions Nurturing Education 

The SHINE program represents a focus not just on survival – but meaningful survival – along with joy, skilled interventions, with a nurturing caring attitude towards the mother’s, babies and each other as colleagues, with the cornerstone being education. 

The key to change is education – measured and focused with all the other elements that create a caring wholistic approach. 

Why? 

To prevent Mothers and babies dying from the top 5 leading morbid conditions of labour and delivery. 

The focus is on training Midwives with skills in prevention and skilled timely action in these emergencies in order to save mothers and babies.  

Why do women die? 

Women die as a result of complications during and following pregnancy and childbirth. Most of these complications develop during pregnancy and most are preventable or treatable. 

Mothers 

1. Post-Partum Hemorrhage – PPH  

2. Pre-eclampsia/Eclampsia (Hypertensive Disorders) 

3. Placental Abruption (usually caused from pre-eclampsia – Eclampisa) 

4. Sepsis (Infections) Including unsafe abortion 

5. Prolonged and Obstructed Labour  

Newborns 

1. Champion Resuscitation Program  

This program will be training Nurse midwives, at the Midwife Vision Training Clinic located inside the campus of Amana Regional Referral Hospital. The aim then is to extend to the peripheral clinics that carry out Antenatal care and deliver women in the community. They refer to the hospital and often have delays, difficulty in transfer that delays care leading to poor maternal and neonatal outcomes. 

With a final goal training push elsewhere in regional areas in Tanzania and Sub-Saharan Africa.  

Midwifes are the key. They conduct the majority of deliveries in Tanzania. They are at the front line of emergency care every day. 

This allows Midwives at Amana Regional Referral Hospital to “SHINE” as the leaders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Sub-Saharan Africa.  Providing gold-standard training and education in maternal and child health; but also allows the Mothers and Babies to “shine” through survival of health and happiness.  

Practical Midwife Vision Training Stations  

• PPH – Bimanual Compression – Insert Uterine Balloon 
• Manual Removal of Placenta 
• Breast Feeding  
• Shoulder Dystocia 
• Breech  

• Perineal repair  
• Neonatal Champion Resuscitation -– Warm Dry Stimulate – Air Air Air  

Equipment 

• Postpartum Uterus Trainer x 2  

• Breastfeeding simulator x 2  
• Mama Natalie Birthing Simulator  
• Perineal repair model with suture material,  

Hear about some exciting news with Midwife Vision and the process of making a documentary to raise funds

Hear about our Staff at Midwife Vision and say goodbye to Michael, our operations Manager

See what’s been happening in the wake of COVID-19 with Midwife Vision in Tanzania

Get an update on the latest fundraising and successful grants for Midwife Vision and where these funds went!

This is a great article providing insight into health care in Tanzania, and the challenges facing the midwives at Amana hospital. It dates back to 2016, when Jan and Chase had just started their journey with Midwifevision.

https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/magazine/soundliving/A-lot-more-needs-to-be-done-to-protect-mothers–lives/1843780-2868494-15bgj68/index.html

Do you have knitted goods you were hoping to donate to us?

As you know, we are no longer able to accept the beautiful knitted goods we have been receiving on behalf of the mothers and babies in Tanzania.

This is so unfortunate, as they are truly appreciated, and we will greatly miss seeing the wonderful creations you have all made with such love and care.

As we don’t want to see any item go to waste, we are pleased to advise that any donations we were unable to send to Tanzania, will be sent to the wonderful team at Knit4Charities.  This is a great association of dedicated knitters, crocheters, sewers and other crafters, who give warm clothing and comforting items such as blankets and toys to needy people throughout our Country. So if you already have knitted goods you were hoping to donate, or wish to continue knitting for a good cause, then we recommend joining the team at Knit4Charities and carrying on the torch!

Thanks again for your generosity and please stay safe.

Thank you to all our wonderful supporters

who planned to join us on the 20th March for our Morning Tea.

It was incredibly disappointing to have to cancel this event, as we so wanted to celebrate with you all

… and devour those scones and jam!

However, we of all people know how important it is to stay healthy and safe.

So instead, we shall look forward to seeing you all when we get the all clear from the powers that be.

In the meantime, thank you again for your support and please stay healthy!

To our supporters, donators and followers,

This is an unprecedented time for the world. Coronavirus has changed the tides in how many companies, charities and institutions are conducting their operations. Our Teams scheduled trip to Tanzania this April has been postponed until further notice as COVID-19 has now entered Tanzania. We are keeping in close contact with our in-country team and wish them good health, safety and success until we return. We have been preparing a statement regarding donations and now seems even more appropriate to release it. Unfortunately we are announcing that Midwife Vision is no longer able to sustain the non-monetary donations, including medical equipment and also clothes, knitted or otherwise. Basically, the costs of freight of our last shipment cost over $10,000AUD in freight costs, tax and fees.

This means that the monetary donations we receive cannot keep up with the shipping for these items which is not fair on mothers and babies who require critical medical equipment like birth kits. In addition to this, the presence COVID-19 means the docks and harbours in Tanzania where our donations received are now closed and quarantined, meaning our equipment would not reach mothers and babies. This change will be in place for Midwife Vision for at least 18 months if not indefinitely. It’s a very sad day for Midwife Vision which started with the Knitters program and which was the hallmark of the “special touches” we provide in the care we give to mothers and babies. BUT, there is good news! There is an organisation in New Zealand called Little Sprouts who would be happy to receive these knitted donations (http://littlesproutsnz.org/).

In Australia the Knitting-and website lists charities in Australia that accept knitted donations (https://www.knitting-and.com/crafts-and-needlework/knitting/charities/).  Kogo also focus on Knitted goods in Australia for needy people (http://www.kogo.org.au/).

Of course we can’t be more grateful to knitters like yourself who have put your love, sweat and tears into such beautiful gifts for mothers and babies half a world away. To re-iterate, from now on Midwife Vision is only able to accept monetary donations. If you need more information on how to do this please do not hesitate to contact us, otherwise, best wishes and thanks again for your generosity and thoughtfulness.

Much love and healthy wishes from all of us at Midwife Vision Global

International Women’s Day is marked annually on 8 March to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women.

This year, a quote from our very own Jan Becker, formed part of DFAT in China’s 2020 IWD campaign #shareherstory on Weibo. As part of the campaign, they shared 11 posts (videos and image texts) on Chinese social media platform Weibo, which generated a total of 2.2 million views and 2,000 plus likes as of 12 March 2020.

Jan’s particular post garnered over 39,300 views and 16 likes!