Maternity Foundation is a Danish development organization that aims to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in developing countries. Every day, 800 women die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth.
With the vision ‘No women should die giving life’, Maternity Foundation works to empower and mobilize women in the communities to seek care and to capacity build and train health practitioners, so that more women give birth with skilled birth attendance. Maternity Foundation works through their own Integrated Maternal Health Program in Ethiopia and by supporting local partners in the capacity building of their maternal and newborn health program.
Maternity Foundation has an entrepreneurial approach focusing on developing evidence-based solutions that can be scaled up to benefit as many women and newborns as possible. In this connection, the organization works closely with leading researchers and academics.
In partnership with Copenhagen University and University of Southern Denmark, Maternity Foundation has developed ‘The Safe Delivery App’. A free smartphone application that aims to improve health workers' skills by complementing existing training programs and overcoming outreach barriers of remote health clinics.
Since 2010, Maternity Foundation has had HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark as patron. The Crown Princess is an active advocate for women's rights and health, and is a member of the international high-level panel of ICPD and patron for the UN Population Fund.
