28th February, 2012
AMREF is set to launch the Stand Up for African Mothers campaign in Kenya at a fundraising gala dinner on March 2 to coincide with the meeting of the AMREF International Board in Nairobi. Graca Machel, who is the patron of the campaign, will transmit her message at the dinner, while Ethiopian/Italian singer Saba Anglana will be the guest performer. She will hold an additional fundraising concert on Saturday, March 3, 2011 at the Alliance Francaise beginning 7.00pm.
AMREF’s Stand Up for African Mothers campaign, launched in October last year, is aimed at raising money to train 15,000 midwives by 2015 to help reduce maternal deaths in Africa by 25 per cent. This is an international campaign being run in all AMREF country offices in Africa and the North. As part of the campaign, AMREF is sponsoring an African midwife, Esther Madudu, for the 2015 Nobel Prize in order to raise awareness of the plight of African women and the importance of midwives in saving the lives of mothers and children. Esther will also speak at the launch in Nairobi.
Besides raising funds for AMREF’s work, the high-profile dinner is expected to increase AMREF’s visibility, strengthen existing partnerships and lay the ground for new ones.
For More information Please Contact
Emily Mworia
Fundraising & Partnership Directorate
Tel: + 254 20 6993307
emily.mworia@amref.org
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