Midwives for Haiti

Happy Haitian Mother’s Day! 💙❤️

Today, we’re celebrating the incredible mothers of Haiti and the strength, love, and determination they bring to their families and communities every single day.

It’s also the final day of our spring campaign, We Hold the Line: Built by Midwives, Backed by Community, and we’re excited to share that together we’ve already raised $31,000 toward our $40,000 goal!

That means we’re just $9,000 away.

What an amazing reminder of what a community can accomplish when we come together behind mothers, babies, and the midwives who care for them.

To everyone who has donated, shared a post, sent an encouraging message, or cheered us on along the way: thank you. You are helping ensure that mothers across Haiti have access to skilled care, safe deliveries, and someone by their side when it matters most.

If you’ve been waiting for the perfect day to give, today is it.

Let’s celebrate Haitian Mother’s Day by finishing strong and closing the final $9,000 together.

Together, we hold the line.

Donate today: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/midwivesforhaiti/

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☀️Message from our Executive Director:

For seven years, in my tenure at MFH, you have made this work possible. And we need you more than ever.

We are $18,000 short of our goal with three days left. That is nearly half of what it takes to keep our doors open, our midwives paid, and women in Haiti receiving the care they deserve.

This has been the hardest funding year in our history. The ground shifted under organizations like ours, and the money that used to steady this whole field is gone. I know things are tight for a lot of you too.

So I won’t pretend this is easy to ask. But here is what your gift holds up:

Women laboring safely at the Carrie Wortham Birth Centre. High-risk mothers with a roof over their heads at Kay Manman Yo. More than 300 women screened this season for preventable cancer through Li Viv. And clinics across Haiti welcoming the women who have nowhere else to go.

$50 screens a woman who has never been screened. $250 funds a full day of outreach. Every dollar before the end of the month goes straight to the women walking through our doors next week.

Give at the link in bio: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/midwivesforhaiti/ And if you can’t give, sharing this post is its own kind of showing up.

Thank you for being someone who shows up. It means everything to the women we serve, and to all of us at Midwives for Haiti.

Marie came to us from our Cornerstone Clinic in Bokbonik with a hemoglobin of 4 and seven children waiting for her at home.

To put that in perspective, a healthy pregnant woman should have a hemoglobin level around 11 or 12. Below 7 is considered severely anemic. Four is the kind of number that makes a midwife’s stomach drop. It means even a routine delivery could turn dangerous, fast.

Our team immediately referred her to Kay Manman Yo, our high-risk maternal waiting home, where she could be monitored closely and cared for around the clock.
During her intake, an ultrasound revealed a second complication.

Twins.

Already carrying a dangerously low blood count, Marie was now carrying two babies, doubling the strain on a body already at its limit.

She needed a blood transfusion, but there was no blood available in the bank. There often isn’t. In many places, that would have been the end of the options.
But not here.

Our midwives adapted. Marie was admitted to Ste Thérèse, where she was started on oral iron and vitamin C and closely monitored by her Midwives for Haiti team. They visited multiple times a day and provided three nourishing meals daily to support her recovery.

A few days later, Marie went into labor and delivered both babies vaginally.

Today, she is back at Kay Manman Yo recovering with her babies beside her. In just two weeks, her hemoglobin has risen from 4 to 9.

The midwives who caught her condition in Bokbonik. The team who referred her before it was too late. The staff who stayed beside her, fed her, monitored her, and believed her body could do this.

They are the reason this mother and her babies are alive today.

And you are part of that reason too.

This is what it means to hold the line.

With one week left in our spring campaign, we are working to raise the remaining $20,000 of our $40,000 goal so our midwives can continue providing this level of care to mothers like Marie every single day.

Help us hold the line.

Donate today:
https://secure.qgiv.com/for/midwivesforhaiti/

We are thankful for your unwavering support. W.K. Kellogg Foundation!

In rural Haiti, access to safe maternity care can be life-changing.

Midwives for Haiti is helping families receive skilled, respectful care through community clinics and Kay Manman Yo, Haiti’s only high-risk maternal waiting home.

Their approach combines clinical excellence with culturally grounded support that helps families feel safe, seen and cared for throughout pregnancy and birth.

The result? In 2024-25, every participant in the program experienced a healthy pregnancy and birth.

See their impact: https://midwivesforhaiti.org/

Li Viv means “She Lives” in Kreyòl, a simple phrase that carries everything with it.

It is the name of our new cervical cancer screening program, and it is also a promise. Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among Haitian women, and it is almost entirely preventable with screening, early detection, and access to a lab, a treatment pathway, and a midwife who knows what she’s looking at.

We have all four.

In Hinche, we run the only PCR lab in the entire Central Plateau. Our Programme Manager, Elie Joseph, a trained laboratory scientist, processes every sample himself. Our team is currently being trained by PINCC in thermal ablation, allowing us to build a one-of-a-kind system that doesn’t lose mothers to an absent system.

When we find something, we treat it right there at Midwives for Haiti headquarters.

Our goal for 2026 is to screen one thousand women.

We have screened four hundred and three women so far.

Five hundred and ninety-seven to go.

This is what twenty years of holding the line makes possible: the credibility, the infrastructure, and the team to start something new. Li Viv is not a pivot. It is a continuation. The same midwives who have caught babies for two decades are now catching cancer at the only stage where catching it matters.

Fund one screening: $35
Fund ten screenings: $350

Donate today toward our spring campaign, Holding the Line: Built by Midwives. Backed by Community. Help us reach one thousand.

Built by midwives. Backed by community.

She lives because we held the line.

DONATE: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/midwivesforhaiti/

Midwives for Haiti is proud to celebrate Haitian Flag Day 🇭🇹

Today, we honor the strength, history, and resilience of Haiti and the incredible communities we serve. Every day, our Haitian midwives carry that legacy forward, supporting mothers and babies across the Central Plateau. 💙❤️

In Cerca la Source, out past our Cornerstone Clinic in Bokbonik, a mother went into heavy labor with twins. She needed to get to our birth center, but the rains had been relentless, and between Cerca la Source and Bokbonik sits a river. Most days, it can be crossed. That night, it couldn’t.

She couldn’t get to us. We couldn’t get to her.

So our team called Mr. Sam, our driver. He left his bed in Hinche at 3 in the morning, got behind the wheel of the pink Land Cruiser, and drove as fast as he could to meet them on the road. He drove for two hours before he found them. They had already been riding a motorcycle for almost 90 minutes.

They connected safely, and Mr. Sam carried her to Ste Thérèse Hospital in Hinche, where she delivered both twins vaginally just one hour later.

But this story wasn’t finished.

She came to Kay Manman Yo, our high-risk maternal waiting home, to recover. A few days later, she hemorrhaged badly, losing nearly 1,000 ccs of blood. To put that in context, that’s close to a liter, the kind of bleeding that can become fatal very quickly.

But she was with our midwives. They had the medications. They had the training. They had the skill to manage the hemorrhage right there, without a second emergency hospital admission.

A few days later, she went home with her twins.

This is a story with two what-ifs that keep us up at night.

What if she hadn’t been able to get to Hinche that night?

What if she had been at home when she started to bleed?

Every day, our network of clinics, our drivers, our maternal waiting home, and our midwives exist to make sure those what-ifs stay hypothetical. A Cornerstone Clinic team that knew who to call. A driver who answered at 3 am. A bed at Kay Manman Yo. Midwives with the right drugs and the right hands.

That’s not luck. That’s a system, built over twenty years, held together by people who refuse to let the answer to “what if” become “we’ll never know.”

This is what it means to hold the line.

And it’s why this spring, we’re inviting you to be part of it through our campaign:

Holding the Line: Built by Midwives. Backed by Community.

Because this system only works if it’s sustained. The drivers. The clinics. The medications. The midwives.

Donate today!

https://secure.qgiv.com/for/midwivesforhaiti/

For twenty years, Midwives for Haiti has done one thing every single month without fail:

We have paid our midwives.

Through coups, earthquakes, fuel shortages, and ongoing violence, payroll has been met. For twenty years, 28 skilled Haitian midwives have continued showing up to work because the work has continued showing up for them, too.

A midwife at MFH earns about $500 a month. That is what it costs to keep one trained, life saving clinician on our team for thirty days. 28 midwives. $14,000 a month. The most important line in our budget and the one we will fight hardest to protect.

This is what it means to hold the line.

It is not glamorous. It is the quiet, essential promise that has carried us for two decades: the people who do the work deserve to be paid for the work.

If you have ever wondered what your gift truly does, this is it.

It pays a midwife.

She delivers babies.
She saves lives.
She feeds her family.
And next month, she comes back.

Support one midwife for a month: $500
Support the full team for a day: $470

This work has continued because people like you chose to stand behind it. Thank you for helping us keep showing up and holding the line.

DONATE: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/midwivesforhaiti/