Congratulations Preth! For safely reaching Lukla having successfully climbed to Everest base camp. Your journey sounds like a truly incredible experience. We've copied an excerpt from your recent message to us below: "Our main guide was rushed via helicopter to hospital after stress fractures to his spine, one of the travellers had an asthma attack, I felt light headed [...]
We're delighted that the textbooks we packed up for Malawi in March have arrived safely. Alex Sembo, pictured, collected all 9 boxes containing more than 200 textbooks donated by staff at Birmingham Women's Hospital. Some of the boxes took a bit of a bashing but the books themselves were undamaged. Alex collected the books from the [...]
You get the idea - 3 mountains in 24 hours! B'ham's Wilderness Medicine Society is climbing the highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales in an adrenalin fuelled 24 hours next month. They'll be drawing attention to the perils facing mothers in some of the poorest parts of the world and raising funds to fuel Ammalife's [...]
We often repeat the statistical headlines of maternal mortality in the developing world, so in case all the numbers seem somewhat abstract, we'd like to tell you a story... Ammalife supporter Preth de Silva is currently undertaking elective medical work in Ghana. On the first day of his time at the hospital, he found a woman lying on [...]
What will YOU be doing to celebrate the Spring bank holiday? We're delighted that Afshin Bemani will be running the Edinburgh marathon for Ammalife on 25th May! And not only running, but running fast! After completing nine previous marathons he has decided to put himself to the ultimate test, with 26 miles in less than 4.5 hours! We [...]
One of our volunteers has arranged a nature trail fundraising activity for a toddler group! The walking event recently took place in the springtime sunshine of London, and everyone in the group had a splendid time. Several families joined the excursion and in fact the adults struggled to keep up with the next generation of Ammalife supporters as [...]
This is the week when we pay tribute to the health workers who make a real difference. Let's meet Shakeel from Pakistan and Alex from Malawi. Shakeel Ahmed is the pharmacist in Havelian who dedicates so much of his time to making such that poor women from remote mountain villages get the help they need when [...]
Huge thanks to the staff at Birmingham Women's Hospital who've donated more than 200 really useful textbooks for their fellow health workers in Malawi. On Saturday 22 March, we loaded up nine very heavy boxes of books on a container bound for Blantyre. The textbooks are destined for midwives and Clinical Officers. The boxes will arrive [...]
Many thanks to everybody who attended our screenings and presentation about how you can help to Save Mothers Lives at the University Arts and Science Festival at lunchtime on Monday this week! We hope you found food for thought, and we look forward to remaining in touch with you in the future. The films entitled "Birth and Death" [...]
The University of Birmingham Arts and Science Festival is a celebration of ideas, research and collaboration across the campus. The overall theme of the event this year is "Life and Death" and at 12.30pm on Monday 17th March Ammalife will be explaining how you can help us to prevent mothers from dying to give life. There are [...]
