Nina goes to a Jungle Mamas workshop!

Nina, a woman living in an Achuar community in the jungles of Ecuador, is shortly expecting her new baby. Thanks to the last Jungle Mamas Safe Birth and Family Health workshop that we ran in June in the community of Wampuik, she now knows much more about how to bring her baby into this world under the safest conditions possible. Traditionally these women give birth all by themselves in the rainforest — this is the main factor that contributes to the high infant and mother mortality rate of the Achuar people. With these workshops we seek to give these women, like Nina, basic knowledge on safe birth practices, mother and infant health and pre-natal postpartum care. Our intention is to offer them this knowledge that we have from the western world and at the same time preserve their culture so that it is stronger and healthier for the future. Nina, after attending our workshop and receiving her birth kit, feels much more confident about giving birth to her baby. None of this could have been possible if it weren’t for your generous support, Michelle, that lets all of this happen in the depths of the Amazon rainforest.