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neversremedy8Help train midwives in Afghanistan: Donation Link. More details behind the cute cut tag.
I am writing to ask for your help with a dire situation for women and girls in Afghanistan. One in six women will die as a result of childbirth or pregnancy-related complications. Maternal mortality rates in Afghanistan are simply unacceptable.
Experts believe that the most effective strategy to reduce these needless and tragic deaths is to train more midwives to assist in pregnancy and childbirth. For only $3,000, a new midwife can be trained in Afghanistan.*
One midwife will in turn be able to promote the health and well-being of countless Afghan women and their new infants. This is extremely important in a country where the healthcare system in most provinces has been devastated and is not functioning. Electricity and supplies are often scarce. Many medical professionals have fled the country. Most Afghan women, even if they are pregnant, have never seen a doctor. Family planning is rarely available.
And all of this is under U.S. watch -- after we promised to provide Afghanistan with a "Marshall Plan" and to free Afghan women.
We have an opportunity to help Afghan women and girls by providing funding to train midwives. Please, donate now -- as generously as you can -- to help train a midwife in Afghanistan. Your support will save lives.
Half of your generous contribution will go toward a midwife training program run by the Shuhada Organization -- an Afghan women-led non-profit organization, founded and led by Dr. Sima Samar, which operates hospitals, clinics, and schools in Afghanistan.
The other half of your contribution will support the Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls, which I chair. Our public education campaign works to increase funding and resources for Afghan women-led non-profit organizations, as well as education and health programs, and to provide support for some 25 Afghan refugee women a year to attend college in the U.S.
Please, while this email is in front of you, make as large a donation as you possibly can. The lives of Afghan women and girls depend upon it.
For Women's Lives,
Mavis Nicholson Leno
Chair, FMF Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls
P.S. If you are interested in forming a fundraising action team in your community to raise more funds for Afghan midwives, please email Susie Gilligan at sgilligan@feminist.org.
*When we last wrote to you on this issue in June, we indicated that $2,000 could train a midwife in Afghanistan. Since then, the Afghan Minister of Health has increased the standard for midwife training from a 12-month course to 18 months?accordingly, the cost has gone up!
Reiki class was cancelled this week because the putz running the child care during the summer doesn't have a clue as to how to actually run it. No organization, no reminders to parents. Not even the balls to ask me to set up flyers again myself. Argh! Anyway, I am going to ask to teach/lead healing workshops at the school throughout the school year. Put in my volunteer time AND help out the students, staff, and teachers. All good! And get me some experience in teaching this here healing method.
Gods, why is my mind oozing out my ears? I'm starting to think I have early signs of alzheimer's or somezing. Focusing is one of my hardest tasks of late, and I've just learned to make fun of myself as often as possible to help gloss over the countless mistakes I keep piling up in my life. Bah!
But I'm pushing myself to teach and to learn. I found the courage to ask someone who intimidates the hell out of me for a few casual classes in a dance form I've mostly forgotten. There is a tentative yes for the near future. Also, tea next week with friendly person. Whoop! Now to go cook cat food for the starving, salivating predators eyeing my legs.
I am writing to ask for your help with a dire situation for women and girls in Afghanistan. One in six women will die as a result of childbirth or pregnancy-related complications. Maternal mortality rates in Afghanistan are simply unacceptable.
Experts believe that the most effective strategy to reduce these needless and tragic deaths is to train more midwives to assist in pregnancy and childbirth. For only $3,000, a new midwife can be trained in Afghanistan.*
One midwife will in turn be able to promote the health and well-being of countless Afghan women and their new infants. This is extremely important in a country where the healthcare system in most provinces has been devastated and is not functioning. Electricity and supplies are often scarce. Many medical professionals have fled the country. Most Afghan women, even if they are pregnant, have never seen a doctor. Family planning is rarely available.
And all of this is under U.S. watch -- after we promised to provide Afghanistan with a "Marshall Plan" and to free Afghan women.
We have an opportunity to help Afghan women and girls by providing funding to train midwives. Please, donate now -- as generously as you can -- to help train a midwife in Afghanistan. Your support will save lives.
Half of your generous contribution will go toward a midwife training program run by the Shuhada Organization -- an Afghan women-led non-profit organization, founded and led by Dr. Sima Samar, which operates hospitals, clinics, and schools in Afghanistan.
The other half of your contribution will support the Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls, which I chair. Our public education campaign works to increase funding and resources for Afghan women-led non-profit organizations, as well as education and health programs, and to provide support for some 25 Afghan refugee women a year to attend college in the U.S.
Please, while this email is in front of you, make as large a donation as you possibly can. The lives of Afghan women and girls depend upon it.
For Women's Lives,
Mavis Nicholson Leno
Chair, FMF Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls
P.S. If you are interested in forming a fundraising action team in your community to raise more funds for Afghan midwives, please email Susie Gilligan at sgilligan@feminist.org.
*When we last wrote to you on this issue in June, we indicated that $2,000 could train a midwife in Afghanistan. Since then, the Afghan Minister of Health has increased the standard for midwife training from a 12-month course to 18 months?accordingly, the cost has gone up!
Reiki class was cancelled this week because the putz running the child care during the summer doesn't have a clue as to how to actually run it. No organization, no reminders to parents. Not even the balls to ask me to set up flyers again myself. Argh! Anyway, I am going to ask to teach/lead healing workshops at the school throughout the school year. Put in my volunteer time AND help out the students, staff, and teachers. All good! And get me some experience in teaching this here healing method.
Gods, why is my mind oozing out my ears? I'm starting to think I have early signs of alzheimer's or somezing. Focusing is one of my hardest tasks of late, and I've just learned to make fun of myself as often as possible to help gloss over the countless mistakes I keep piling up in my life. Bah!
But I'm pushing myself to teach and to learn. I found the courage to ask someone who intimidates the hell out of me for a few casual classes in a dance form I've mostly forgotten. There is a tentative yes for the near future. Also, tea next week with friendly person. Whoop! Now to go cook cat food for the starving, salivating predators eyeing my legs.
