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For the third time since 2015, RHCI and Midwives on Missions of Service (MOMS) are collaborating to bring a month-long training to the Tikonko Chiefdom. Starting on October 12, twenty traditional birth attendants and community health workers in the area of Gondama in the Tikonko Chiefdom began the hands-on training with MOMS staff member Jitta Rogers Seisay in charge.
The trainings include over 20 modules of topics such as nutrition, sanitation, preparing for childbirth, labor and delivery, newborn care, and much more. The methods of learning are adapted in the MOMS curriculum to make it possible for women with little or no literacy to be successful. Charts, models, singing, skits and dancing plus lots of review are all part of the process. Watch for more pictures on Facebook.
RHCI began its partnership with the Gondama Community Health Center (CHC) in November 2019 with setting up motorbike outreach clinics to 4 villages in the Gondama Catchment area. RHCI received a grant from the US Embassy in Freetown to rehabilitate the Gondama Birth Waiting Home (formerly operated by MSF or Doctors Without Borders). This joint project combines the staff of RHCI and the Gondama CHC in this effort, with plans to open in late 2020. Along with the MOMS training, these programs will improve the health of mothers, babies and children in the Gondama area for years to come.
