Huge thanks to those generous folks who helped us reach this year's Big Give Christmas Challenge target of £4000. Each year, the Big Give selects small charities and runs a fundraising campaign over just 3 days. Online donations are doubled during that time. The pot of matching money is usually gone with 30 minutes of opening [...]
We're delighted to announce Ammalife's third Bursary for outstanding Clinical Officers from Malawi. Dr Paul O'Hare's generous bequest in memory of his father means that Yolam Kameme, an experienced Clinical Officer, will now be able to attend medical school and qualify as a doctor. Yolam graduated with a BSc (First Class Honors) from Warwick University last [...]
As many of you will know, Ammalife has been supporting a radical approach to saving mothers' lives in the mountains of Pakistan - and it has nothing to do with hi-tech medicine. We've made sure that mothers can reach expert help when things go wrong by developing a community based taxi service that prioritises mothers in [...]
Diary Alert: 6.00pm on Tuesday 18 November 2014 The Edge of Joy is a documentary film that follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and families to the frontlines of maternal care. Inside a maternity ward, the film chronicles distressed labors, deaths, and miraculous survival. Outside, lack of blood supply transportation and family planning are examined as causes [...]
Thank you to everybody who joined us between the bouncy castle and the bungee jumpers on the University of Birmingham campus on Sunday 7th September! We enjoyed ourselves in the sunshine and met lots of new supporters in addition to many old friends. Our Community Day stall offered something for everybody: jellies, flying saucers, popcorn, mugs, scrunchies, [...]
Join us for the Annual General Meeting to find out all about our work in 2013/14. It's your chance to meet the faces behind the names, ask questions and offer advice and suggestions. We meet in the Education Resource Centre (ERC) at Birmingham Women's Hospital at 11.00 am on Sunday 21 September. Coffee and croissants are [...]
What are you thinking about? And how do you imagine research? It's not all just laboratories and white coats... You can learn more about what researchers really do if you come along to the Think Corner in the Pavilions Shopping Centre of Birmingham city centre in the next couple of weeks (between now and Sunday 14th September). Today Ammalife [...]
Ammalife researcher, Dr Amie Wilson, assisted the team from UCL in analysing data from women's groups in Malawi, Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The results show that the benefits of participatory learning groups are outstanding. As many as half of all the 800 mothers who die each day could survive childbirth. Now that work has been has [...]
Many of you will know of the heroic efforts of Shakeel Ahmed to reach mothers in some of the most inaccessible villages in the mountains of Havelian in North West Pakistan. Ammalife is proud to have sponsored and co-funded this important life-saving work. To mark Shakeel's work, all of which is voluntary, Ammalife presented him with [...]
Double congratulations! On the same day that Ammalife's first researcher, Dr Amie Wilson, was awarded her PhD, she received praise from the editors of the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review. Her work on Emergency Transport for Mothers in low resource countries was judged by them to be one of the top articles of 2013. Here at Ammalife [...]
