Along with Loibor-Siret Sustainable Education Forum, HFC has been working to identify the major factors that cause death and illness among Maasai mothers and infants, and then create an innovative model to address these problems.

This project is in partnership with the Rotary Club of Fulton (Missouri-USA) and the Babati Rotary Club (Babati District, Manyara Region, Tanzania).  With a Rotary Foundation Global Grant, these clubs are working with HFC and LSEF on the following initiatives in the villages of Loibor-Siret and Kimotorok:

• Training traditional birth attendants (TBAs) on safer-birthing practices

• Distributing safe-birthing-kits to TBAs and local clinics

• Installing solar panels on the clinics

• Installing a Solar Suitcase in both clinics

• Establishing a basic clinical laboratory in each clinic for the diagnosis of diseases

• Developing an experimental medical transport service using Basic Utility Vehicles

• Distributing malaria preventing bed nets

• Developing a series of educational videos that can be taken into the field

• Constructing latrines at clinics, schools, and marketplaces

• Training mothers in the “First 1,000 Days” – a child survival initiative

Future projects to increase mother/newborn/infant survival include:

• A birthing center/mothers’ waiting house close to each village clinic

• A rainwater treatment initiative in Kimotorok to bring clean water to the area

• A community mapping program to help medical transport drivers find the remote bomas (homesteads)