Rwanda's Women Unite To Save Mothers' Lives

Rwanda's history-making women MPs united today to launch a campaign to reduce the number of mothers who die in childbirth. The women became the first in the world last week to outnumber their male counterparts in parliament, with 56% of the seats. Today, in a bid to improve health support for women across the country, the female parliamentarians, together with the First Lady, Jeanette Kagame, UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and other development partners united to support the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood Rwanda. Supported by £30,000 grant from DFID, the White Ribbon Alliance will work to increase awareness about safe pregnancy and childbirth in Rwanda and unite the many existing initiatives aimed at improving motherhood in Rwanda. The rate of women dying during childbirth in Rwanda is amongst... [read full story]