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Maternity Foundation is a Danish development organization that aims to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in developing countries.

Every year, around 300,000 women die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth, 2.7 million babies die during the first 28 days of life, and 2.6 million stillbirths occur. The majority of these deaths are preventable.

Maternity Foundation works to empower and mobilize women to seek care, to build the capacity of and train health practitioners, so that more women give birth with skilled birth attendance. Maternity Foundation’s own program, the Maternal and Newborn Health Program in Ethiopia, works with local partners in the capacity building of health care workers and empowering the community to seek care.