Our mission is to support pregnant women in Nepal through innovative technology and community efforts. Amakomaya is a project designed to increase the outreach of information related to maternal and child health related issues to rural pregnant women. The basic aim of the project is to provide educational and motivational contents related to pregnancy to rural populace. The contents will be provid
ed in the form of video, audio and text format. All the are developed in a standard format and are localized (in Nepali language) so that, rural people with very low or no education can understand it. Different formats of the content allow the target population to acquire more knowledge that triggers behavioral change in them. The project is based on three basic principles. They are:
● Connect
● Inform
● Monitor
The project will develop an android application which will provide video, audio and text content to rural pregnant women and connect them with nearest Government Health Facilities through FCHVs, then to urban based hospital doctors through Health Post for further analysis and suggestions to increase potential for safe motherhood. The pregnant women will be able to register her conceived or due date. She will then be able to get weekly pregnancy related contents relevant to her stage of pregnancy and be well informed about the changes she and her baby in going through. With this access to information, she will be able to monitor her and baby’s health status by herself and by visit to authorized health institutions. The project is an extension of “amakomaya.com”; a web based application that aims to provide pregnancy related contents to rural pregnant women. It was initiated since May, 2012, with the grant of $4000 provided by Internet Society (ISOC) small community grant under Next Generation E-learning Leadership program. The web application was implemented in 10 V.D.C.s of Myagdi, Kaski, Nuwakot and Rasuwa district in Nepal. However, due to insufficient access of computer in the rural community of most of the rural areas, the project couldn’t create the expected outcome. So the previous project decided to disseminate audio and video content in smart phone device by using MicroSD card. This idea has left encouraged result and so the project was motivated to develop Android based application to offer different features and services for pregnant women and other related stakeholders such as FCHV, City hospital doctors (from Teaching Hospital and Patan Hospital in Kathmandu), Rural health workers and Government of Nepal.
