Topic: Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health

Maly works as a Line Leader at a busy garment factory in Phnom Penh. She is 8 months pregnant with her second child, and sometimes her job can be very tiring and demanding! But there are perks of working at her company, and she has joined CARE’s Chat! Contraceptive training program, which has taught her new skills to help her workers, but also to improve her personal life!

“When the doctors asked me the name of the child, I told them that he is Care."

Sina is 23 years old and is from the Lao ethnic minority group in Cambodia. She recently gave birth to her first baby at her local health centre. Sina is an example of change in a community where births have traditionally taken place with women with no formal training and without quality medical care.

Imagine you are pregnant. You want to find out information about pregnancy, labour and keeping your baby healthy. But all of the information you find is written in a language you don’t understand. What do you do?

The determination and hope of Anita BK made her Vice-President among other 28 members in Citizen Awareness Center.

In Nizip, Turkey, Syrian refugees are gathered in CARE's Information Protection Space. They are participating in awareness raising sessions take place every week with ‘community activators’. These are men and women chosen from their communities to learn how to tackle issues like gender based violence, child labor, early marriage and family planning.

Last month a CARE supported hospital managed to do 1000 operations that saved many lives in remote Pariang county. In the past, complicated cases were referred to Juba. By road, the journey took four days on bumpy and sometimes impassable roads. Read about the operating theatre saving thousands of lives in remote areas of South Sudan.

Helping mothers with healthy timing and spacing of births promotes their children’s health too.

“We stay in our tent every night because bad things happen at night here. It’s not safe,” says Josephine