Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center, Uganda

Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center, Uganda The Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center is a free birth center in Mbale, in the Abayudaya Tobin Heath Center

The Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center was founded in July, 2018 due to the efforts of an Israeli nurse-midwife, Ilana Shemesh, who volunteered in Uganda and was motivated to help improve the maternal and infant mortality and morbidity statistics. Coming from Israel, she connected with the small remote Ugandan Jewish community there and was assisted by the local Rabbi and l doctor and given the challenge of raising funds and creating a safe and dignified place to birth within the existing structure of the health center. After a year of fundraising, she returned to Uganda to make her dream into a reality. The center serves the women of the third largest city in Uganda, Mbale, and all the neighboring villages, and has a multi-denominational clientele and staff of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. The maternity center provides prenatal, birth, and post-partum services, contraception, vaccinations and prevents and treats pregnancy complications as well as Malaria, HIV, Typhoid fever, etc., In order to encourage women to birth in the Birth Center with the available medical supervision and equipment for a safe birth, instead of birthing unassisted in unhygienic poverty conditions, the births must be totally 100% subsidized. These women simply cannot afford the cost of the birth ($5). To maintain the sustainability of the Maternity Center, we are dependent on donations to subsidize the cost of the births and the midwives' salaries, medications, and supplies. This is a charitable and humanitarian effort to prevent maternal death and give babies the best possible chance to live.

We love our volunteers from abroad that serve the women and help the staff at the Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center. Tha...
15/12/2024

We love our volunteers from abroad that serve the women and help the staff at the Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center. Thank you Danya

Thank you to our current volunteer, Danya Rowen Meirovitch, for her outstanding service to the staff and pregnant women ...
15/12/2024

Thank you to our current volunteer, Danya Rowen Meirovitch, for her outstanding service to the staff and pregnant women and babies at the Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center in Mbale, Uganda.

23/08/2024

Thank you so much midwife Cynthia Yaffe for volunteering last month. You came all the way from Washington State to share your knowledge and support the
Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center.

Welcome to our new volunteer midwife from Tennessee, Debi Church . So happy to have you assisting our midwives and supporting our birthing momma's.

Congratulations to our Administrator, Susan, on the birth of her son, assisted by our wonderful midwives.
23/08/2024

Congratulations to our Administrator, Susan, on the birth of her son, assisted by our wonderful midwives.

04/07/2024

From our midwife volunteer, Cynthia Yaffe:

I cannot believe I have only been at the birth center here in Mbale Uganda for 5 days! I have been made to feel so welcome and taken care of; things I usually associate with a length of time a lot longer than 5 days! We have had, I believe, six births since I’ve arrived, and to be present is always an honor, but to participate now as an official “Granny Midwife”, (an honorable title no matter what the youth conscious culture of America says!), has been truly rewarding . I am called “Mama” as a sign of respect which is actually humbling and a title I need to put effort into in order to live up to.
Yesterday, a ride into town. The word “teeming” comes to mind; teeming with life, commerce, motorized vehicles, humans and nature. Coming from an island in Puget Sound, a little overwhelming in the best way possible! The clinic building where I volunteer is the white building down the street.
More to come!

12/05/2023

As Mother’s Day quickly approaches, it reminds us how vital mothers are to their babies and their families. They are the nurturers, the caretakers and the force that keeps everyone healthy. We must support these mothers and mothers-to-be during their most vulnerable time - when they are pregnant. Our thoughts are with these mothers having babies halfway across the world, knowing that we can help them. Send a donation in honor of your mother, daughter, daughter-in-law, granddaughter, niece or friend to show them how important it is to help these mothers...

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Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center, Uganda

The midwifery staff and the birthing women are so grateful and appreciative of all the support and love from the volunte...
23/11/2022

The midwifery staff and the birthing women are so grateful and appreciative of all the support and love from the volunteer doula from Israel, Chana Shaya Gabai. We hope she comes back to help again.

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23/11/2022

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30/09/2022

We had just over 40 births this month of September!!! Yeah and thanks to our outreach and village health team workers and of course our wonderful staff of midwives and Susan, our administrator. May we continue to serve our women and babies.

16/08/2022

Big thank you to Israeli midwife volunteer, Orit Levine, and husband Noam Levine for their time and contribution to the Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center in July.

After spending a month at the Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center, I have returned to Israel. But I am thrilled to see tha...
16/08/2022

After spending a month at the Shifrah and Puah Maternity Center, I have returned to Israel. But I am thrilled to see that our work continues and today I received many pictures from the 2 days of village outreach to promote antenatal care and advertise our free services for delivery. With the help of our Ugandan midwife Zurah, our administrator Susan, our Dr. Baniru, and a lab technician we were able to provide 100 pregnant women with maternity care. We couldn't have done it without the wonderful midwife volunteer from the U. S., Morgan Crowson, who brought her expertise and a hemoglobin machine and Doppler. Also helping out was our volunteer doula from Israel, Chana Shaya. We are hoping to have these women come to our birth center and enjoy our services.

Today we surpassed our goal of 20 births a month, with 23 babies born. Thanks to our midwives, Zurah and Brenda and our ...
31/07/2022

Today we surpassed our goal of 20 births a month, with 23 babies born. Thanks to our midwives, Zurah and Brenda and our administrator Susan. I was lucky to have caught 4 of them and also Orit Levine, another Israeli midwife volunteer caught some babies as well. Please continue to support us as all our births are 100 percent subsidized and we exist on donations.
To donate:

Help improve community health services for women and children in Uganda.

Address

Soroti Street Plot 20
Mbale

Telephone

+256752806006

Website

http://shifrahandpuahmaternitycenter.org/

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