Midwives for Haiti

12/25/2025

Happy Holidays from Midwives for Haiti!

12/24/2025

Being recognized as a worthy cause for donations is an incredible honor Mom Bloggers for Social Good! Thank you to all who give, share, and believe in what we do. Your support helps us continue serving and creating positive change in our community.

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During the holidays, one of the gifts my late mother gave to each of her children was a donation to a worthy cause made in our individual names. Every year, I looked forward to learning which organ…

12/22/2025

We’re 61% of the way there in our end of year campaign, and it’s because of you!

So far, $48,457 has been raised to support mothers, midwives, and babies across Haiti. Our $80,000 goal is within reach, and every gift right now brings us closer to more safe births, skilled care, and lives protected.

Together, we deliver. 🩷
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12/18/2025

At the Carrie Wortham Birth Center in Fombrun, the mountain is always part of the story.

Women come down from villages scattered across a vast catchment area for antenatal care, hundreds each month. They walk, ride, and climb because they trust the midwives and want skilled care for their pregnancies.

But when labor begins, distance changes everything.

Labor does not wait for daylight, clear weather, or money for transportation. During the rainy season, roads become dangerous, rivers swell, and mudslides cut off access entirely. As much as they want to reach the Center, sometimes they simply cannot.
In the past few months, four babies were lost on that mountain.

Not because care was unavailable. Not because the midwives were not ready. But because their mothers couldn’t reach us in time.

We had to stop this from happening again.

The solution was clear: women from distant villages needed a place to wait before labor began - somewhere safe, close to the midwives, where distance couldn’t win.
The full project would cost $25,000, far beyond our reach. But we couldn’t wait for perfect funding while more babies were lost.

For about $1,000, we did what we always do. We adapted.

Storage was consolidated. Furniture was moved. One room was cleared and four beds were set up. We named it Tann Ak Espwa - Wait With Hope.

On December 15, the room was dedicated, with the ribbon cut by Miss Pyram, head of maternal health nursing for the Plateau Central with the Ministry of Health.

Now, when a woman arrives from the mountain days or weeks before her due date, she can stay. She can rest. She can wait safely. And when labor begins, the midwives are already there.

This holiday season, be part of more than an end-of-year campaign. Be part of the success stories still being written. Stories of mothers met with compassion instead of fear. Of midwives showing up with skill, patience, and care. Of babies welcomed safely into the world because someone chose to give. Together, we deliver!

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12/15/2025

For years, volunteers came to Midwives for Haiti and poured their hearts into this work. Many of you have written to us sharing how much you miss being here, how deeply you long to return, and how Haiti reshaped the way you understand birth and community.

This holiday season, we feel that longing with you.

While it is not yet safe to welcome volunteers back to Haiti, we know the desire to serve still burns strong. And we believe that care, solidarity, and kindness do not stop at a border.

Many Haitian families now living in the Dominican Republic fled Haiti in search of safety during a time of national upheaval. This displacement has created a growing need for compassionate, culturally informed maternity support in the DR.

For this reason, we are honored to introduce a new volunteer program partnership between Midwives for Haiti and Partos Humanizados RD.

is a midwife-led Dominican organization providing perinatal care primarily to Dominicans of Haitian descent and Haitian migrants. Their work is rooted in dignity, joy, and deep respect for women throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. They share our values, our mission, and our belief in humanized maternity care.

This partnership offers MFH volunteers a meaningful way to continue supporting Haitian women, simply in a different location. We welcome midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, nurses, obstetricians, and family doctors. Volunteers will support childbirth education, antenatal and postnatal clinics, labor support, and home births when appropriate, always working within their scope of practice.

This opportunity is ideal for birthworkers who wish to remain connected to MFH’s mission while we await the right time to return to Haiti.

For more details, email queries@midwivesforhaiti.org and follow our socials for an informational Zoom meeting coming soon.

✨Want to find other ways to make an impact this holiday season?

Join our community of supporters by contributing to our End-of-Year Campaign today. Together, we deliver.

DONATE: https://midwivesforhaiti.org/donate-now/

12/12/2025

It’s Camp Clinic! We’re excited to bring malaria testing to our clinic in partnership with MSPP, along with providing crucial vaccines to mothers. This week, we also focused on educating our community about sexual and domestic violence, empowering everyone with the knowledge to stay safe.

12/09/2025

Listening to little heartbeats today! What was the first thing you loved about your own ultrasound moment?

12/04/2025

A Mother Caught Between Borders

Before anything else, Rose was a mother holding her newborn close, still aching from surgery, trying to get home. That should have been the whole story. A road. A baby. A homecoming.

But Haiti has become a place where even simple stories bend until they shatter.

Rose left her home because gang violence swallowed her neighborhood. More than 200,000 people have been pushed out, and pregnant women carry the heaviest fear. Many, like Rose, cross into the Dominican Republic dreaming of safety, a bed, a place with no gunshots or kidnappings.

Instead, they often find more danger. More than 250,000 Haitians have been deported, taken suddenly, often brutally. Pregnant women and postpartum mothers are specifically targeted.

Rose became one of them.

Two days after her C section, still bleeding, still unsteady, she climbed onto a motorcycle with her baby. She never reached her family. Authorities stopped the bike and pulled her away. Thankfully her infant stayed with her, but she was taken across the border and left on the Haitian side with no money, no papers, and only forty-eight hours postpartum. Eight more days passed as she tried to survive.

When she reached our MFH clinic in Montegrande, she was running a high fever and shaking. Her incision was swollen and two abscesses had formed. But even worse than that, was a smell that warned our midwives something had gone terribly wrong.

During the exam, they found gauze left behind after her birth. Infection had taken hold. Her body was losing the fight, and losing it fast.

Rose was rushed to Ste Therese Hospital where she received excellent treatment. And then we invited her to Kay Manman Yo, our maternal waiting home, where her healing began in earnest.

There, surrounded by steady hands and kind voices, she is regaining her strength. She eats well. She nurses her baby. She sleeps without fear. Community holds her like a mother holds a child.

She told us, “If I had not met the midwives, I would have died. I know it.”

Rose’s story is one mother’s story, and it reflects the reality women across Haiti face every day. More mothers are arriving at our clinics carrying fear, exhaustion, and impossible choices. Your support makes it possible for midwives to meet them with skilled care, safety, and dignity. As we enter our End of Year Campaign, we invite you to stand with families like Rose’s and help us continue this life-saving work. Together we deliver hope where it is needed most.

DONATE: https://midwivesforhaiti.org/donate-now/

12/02/2025

Giving Tuesday is here, and you are the reason we can keep going!
Today also marks the official kickoff of our end-of-year campaign, "Together, We Deliver."
"Together, We Deliver" isn’t just a name. It is a reminder that every act of generosity creates real and lasting change for mothers, midwives, and babies across Haiti.
Because of supporters like you, skilled midwives continue to show up with steady hands and clear purpose. Mothers who arrive anxious are welcomed with compassion. Babies take their first breaths safely. And communities feel a measure of strength even in difficult times.
Today, we are asking you to help us raise $80,000 to keep this care going. Your support equips midwives, keeps clinics open, and protects families who are counting on us.
Your gift does more than meet an immediate need.
It becomes part of every birth story that follows.
A light in a challenging moment.
A steady hand when fear is close.
A promise that no mother faces labor alone.

This Giving Tuesday, your support can deliver more than survival.
You can help deliver dignity, safety, and joy in birth.
Together, we deliver life.
Together, we deliver care.
Together, we deliver Haiti’s future because you choose to give.

DONATE: https://midwivesforhaiti.org/donate-now/

11/25/2025

Off to the hospital with one strong, steady mama—focused, calm, and ready for what’s ahead.

11/21/2025

Our generator keeps the lights on, powers the water tanks, and ensures our team can provide safe, clean, and consistent care for mothers and babies—especially during frequent outages.
It’s one of our largest ongoing expenses, from fuel to maintenance. Huge thanks to our supports for literally keeping lights on!

11/19/2025

Thanks to the support of Impacting Haiti, 50 IDP kids spent the day with a pediatrician, making care possible for mothers in our camp clinic to receive care for all their children. What a day!