December 2016

Together, we can clothe every baby and make pregnancy safe for all moms.

Foreign Policy Magazine honors Moka Lantum and Lynne Davidson as "Leading Global Thinkers" of 2016
 

We're so grateful to our young volunteers in Kenya who are working so hard to collect t-shirts to support our baby clothes program. They're building partnerships with local groups in Kenya to ensure our Operation Karibu babies are clothed and their moms have good healthcare. Thank you for your hard work, time, and dedication to our cause!

Diana Wangari, our new Communications Manager in Kenya, is a medical doctor and journalist, whose main interest is to utilize health communications to bring about fundamental social and behavioral change. Diana got her start as a columnist for The Standard Newspaper in Kenya before moving on to The Star Newspaper as a health columnist and features writer. She has served as a contributor to The Thomson Reuters Foundation and was the pilot journalist-in-residence at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp. Through her passion of applying medical knowledge to facilitate in-depth media coverage of medicine and public health, she has been the recipient of multiple international reporting grants and has served as a resource advisor for The Guardian’s "End FGM Global Media Campaign." Diana is the current Kenyan special correspondent for Citizen News Service India and a liaison for Health Programmes at Kenya Television Network (KTN), Kenya’s second leading TV station.

"I have both held mothers who lost their babies shortly after delivery and babies who were orphaned soon after birth. And the greatest tragedy is that these are preventable deaths. 2020 MicroClinic Initiative is a noble cause that is bringing about fundamental impact."

DIANA E. WANGARI, MD
Nairobi, Kenya

With just a few days left in 2016, this is your last chance to double the value of your donation! If you contribute to 2020 MicroClinic before the year’s end, our board members will match your donation up to $10,000! With your generosity and the help of the board, we can raise $20,000 before the end of the year. Consider sponsoring our innovative maternal health game or make a general donation to help make pregnancy and childbirth safe for mothers and babies in rural Kenya. Thank you for your continued and generous support!

We want to recognize Betty Davidson as an outstanding supporter of 2020 MicroClinic Initiative's work. Whether it's knitting hats to keep Operation Karibu babies warm, or packing clothing donations, or helping our team with administrative work, Betty has donated countless hours of hard work to our cause for many years. As a recurring donor, she's helped keep our program going so that thousands of mothers have access to good healthcare in Kenya. We couldn't ask for a more valuable supporter and friend of this organization. Thank you, Betty!

"All babies should have clothes, food, healthcare, and a chance to grow into adulthood wherever they are born."

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