Holiday greetings from Uganda and an update on STM activities in Uganda and Canada.

Warm greetings from Uganda. We’re back to start another term though we’ve been met with some challenges on ground, particularly the lack of electricity that is crippling the country’s economy and functioning.

Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Future:A retrospective of the past years and new initiatives for moving forward

Warm greetings from Uganda, where the Save the Mothers team has continued to be active. We have also been encouraged by the various partnerships that continue to grow our unique program and help some of Africa’s neediest women and children.

As another year draws to a close, we reflect on our good news stories of 2010. Thank you for your continuing support and encouragement as we work together to improve maternal health in Uganda.

With Canadian Thanksgiving recently passed, I’m reminded of the thanks I have for your ongoing interest and help for East Africa’s vulnerable women and children. Each morning as I see the sun rising over the hills of Uganda, I’m thankful for the team working for women and children many of us will never meet. It may seem like this is all a long way away, but there’s only an airplane ride between us.

For the Save the Mothers team, it has been a busy time, a watershed moment thanks to the recent focus on global maternal health. As you know, the 2010 G8 Summit in Muskoka focused on maternal and child health in the developing world. Save the Mothers had the privilege of having a voice in this global initiative led by Canada. There were several highlights that I think will interest you.

Save the mothers will be receiving media coverage during the G8 summit about safe motherhood. Download the pdf to see the schedule for radio and television broadcasts.

Happy Mother’s Day and thank you for your ongoing interest in the world’s most needy mothers and children. We are working in a season of great hope.

It has continued to be a progressive time for the Save the Mothers program. On the ground here in Uganda we have just finished another module with 45 Ugandan professionals: societal leaders who are learning more about how to bring safe motherhood into their culture.

At this special time of year, I’d like to say thank you so much for your support and advocacy. This has been a banner year for Save the Mothers, as our team has continued to work enthusiastically on behalf of some of the world’s neediest women and children. Here are some of STM’s highlights.

From the Director's Desk November 2009 Warm greetings from Uganda and a special ‘hello’ from the 55 Ugandan professionals who are currently studying here in the Save the Mothers program. For 25 of these professionals, their first three-week module recently started. It’s exciting to see their enthusiasm as they learn the ABCs of safe motherhood and how to make this a new reality in their country.

Warm greetings from Uganda and a special ‘hello’ from the 55 Ugandan professionals who are currently studying here in the Save the Mothers program. For 25 of these professionals, their first three-week module recently started. It’s exciting to see their enthusiasm as they learn the ABCs of safe motherhood and how to make this a new reality in their country.

We are very thankful for the completion of Mirembe Hall. On the ground-level it has two classrooms, each holding about 50 students, plus several offices. Upstairs are residential rooms holding up to three dozen students, a computer lab, lounge and kitchenette.

As Mother's Day 2008 is upon us, I reflect on recent activity of the Save the Mothers program, thankful and excited about its growing impact in Uganda. On the invitation of Save the Mothers, Uganda's First Lady, Hon. Janet Museveni came to speak at Uganda Christian University for International Women's Day.

We're rescuing thousands of mothers and children from preventable deaths, one Save the Mothers student at a time. Some 1,500 mothers still die silently, everyday, in the developing world from preventable complications of childbirth, including 15, daily, in Uganda.

The highlight was hosting STM student Sylvia Ssinabulya, a Ugandan MP from the district of Mityana, who joined me in number of Ontario centers, including Ottawa. There she met Canadian MPs, Senators and statesmen including former Prime Minister, Joe Clark.

At this special time of year that is so intricately linked to a mother and child, we are reminded that many mothers and their babies do not experience a safe and clean delivery. The Save the Mothers program in Uganda is helping to make a difference so that safe motherhood and newborn care is a reality for the 1.2 million mothers who deliver in this country every year.

Where are these children without a mother? Uganda continues to attract international attention with the instabilities of war in its northern regions. Many of the victims involved in this conflict are young girls and mothers. All across the country, women are facing uncertain futures as they give life to the next generation through childbirth.

After several years in the planning, on Oct 24, 2005 Save the Mothers International formally began its first class at Ugandan Christian University. The first group of students is made up of 21 professionals committed to the health of mothers and their children in Uganda.