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Our work is organised around four pillars. Together they address the information, practical, service and system barriers that keep people from appropriate care.
We start in the community. Education raises awareness, mobilisation brings people together, and navigation helps individuals move from knowing to doing: finding the right service, getting there and being followed up afterwards.
Where cost, supplies or circumstance are the barrier, we provide appropriate practical help. Our MamaSafe clean birth kits are one example: they help a woman arrive at birth prepared, whatever her means.
Communities and health facilities need each other. We work with healthcare providers through education and capacity-building, and strengthen the relationship between communities and the services that serve them.
We want our work to be guided by evidence and to contribute to it. That means understanding needs before acting, measuring what happens, learning from it and sharing what we find with those who shape health services.
At the Lugbe outreach in September 2025, women received maternal health education (pillar 1) and clean birth kits (pillar 2). The participating clinic received an emergency maternal care kit, and we worked with its staff on the day (pillar 3).
The next phase of MamaSafe will add stronger referrals and follow-up, and our planned research and learning initiative will help us document results properly (pillar 4).
We are looking for healthcare facilities, development partners, funders and volunteers who share our commitment to community-centred public health in Nigeria.
