Mercy In Action staff invites you to join us in the Philippine islands for a learn-and-serve adventure to immerse yourself in our proven global model for providing maternal/child health care. In addition to completing Helping Mothers and Babies Survive courses, you will tour Mercy In Action’s sponsored Birth Centers, join our First 1,000 Days outreach home visiting program, and teach life-saving skills to local birth providers.

This on-site and hands-on training will focus on international standards and initiatives as well as simple technology to be implemented or scaled up to prevent and treat problems during pregnancy and childbirth in low-resource areas. We will explain how maternity care is impacted by poverty and natural disaster, the role of the midwife in disaster response, and give invaluable instruction in creating a safe birthing area when health care systems cannot meet the needs and pregnant families are living in conditions of deprivation. Life-saving global initiatives will be on view as you walk beside the First 1,000 Days mercy companions on home visits and join the midwives teaching the International Childbirth Initiative 12 Steps to Safe and Respectful MotherBaby-Family Maternity Care in our implementing sites.