Imagine delivering a baby in rural Sierra Leone. If you bleed, if you seize, if your baby cannot breathe there is no one to help you. Bike without Borders is riding to the rescue.
Your Ride Can Save Their Life!
Sierra Leone is a West African country with one of the highest maternal and newborn death rates in the world. These women and babies do not have die; their lives can be saved with simple, affordable interventions.
- 5 dollars provides a vial of oxytocin to prevent a woman from bleeding to death from a post-partum hemorrhage
- 15 dollars provides a vial of magnesium to prevent life-threatening seizures from toxemia
- 20 dollars provides a training and reference manual for emergency obstetrical care for a physician or midwife a birth attendant
- 30 dollars provides a bag and mask to resuscitate an asphyxiated newborn
Bikes without Borders is supporting Safe Passages,” a maternal health educational and resource assistance program in Bo, Sierra Leone. The program has been developed by Maternal Life International, headquartered in Butte and the West Africa Fistula Foundation. Please join us for this ride; 100 percent of the proceeds will benefit women and babies in Sierra Leone! For more information visit us at www.maternallifeintl.com. |