Mobile Maternal Care Hub

85% Ugandan women face unintended, abandoned & unofficial pregnancies, of which 65% live in villages and hard to reach areas leading to high levels of unplanned births, unsafe abortions, maternal injury and death, because adolescent girls and young women are involved in premarital sex, they are never married or unofficially married with high risk for maternal mortality since they have no health insurance and also live in villages or hard to reach areas, most of them are abandoned because the pregnancy was not official so men tend to withdraw their responsibility for taking care.

This solution will develop a digital app acting as a mobile maternal care hub managed by trained unemployed health workers as ambassadors of maternal health care for women in discussion. This will be scaled globally to unofficially married women who have sex and fall victims of unintended, abandoned & unofficial pregnancies hence lacking maternal health care.

85% of women in Kasese are very poor, this increases their chances of being engaged in relationships for material gain, in so doing, they end up having premarital sex that leads to unintended, abandoned & unofficial pregnancy with men who are not ready to take up responsibility. This therefore expose them to several risks like unsafe abortions, maternal death, unsafe delivery and lack of maternal health education. at least 15% of the 85% find their  way abroad for employment that can earn them good money which exposes them to mental slavery. while abroad, they are seen to be normal human beings with feelings for sex and when they have sex they also fall victims of unintended, abandoned & unofficial pregnancies and this is too risky for them as they have no insurance to access maternal health care especially when they are not officially married. It is observed that use of contraceptives in Uganda is very low. Only 5% of these women are able to use modern contraceptive methods and the rest do not use contraceptives yet they do not want to become pregnant but become pregnant by mistake and unsafe abortion poses significant costs that is nearly US$150 per abortion.

A Mobile Maternal care hub is a solution that will use an integrated digital app for women facing unintended, abandoned & unofficial pregnancies that will provide an intersection for maternal health care services between unofficially married women and mobile professional health workers working as an independent body providing maternal health care services to the local community and hard to reach areas. The digital app will use a GPS system to give location and send a signal for the required services and an alert will be sent to the available health care personnel's for a quick intervention.

2. The digital app will also provide maternal health education and care for new born babies and will give warning messages for certain health conditions, give recommendations for maternal services, career guidance and cancelling for a safe pregnancy environment with reduced stress and anxiety.

3. The solution will transform lives of unofficially married women who are victims of unintended, abandoned & unofficial pregnancies and transition from unsafe births to safe births even with no care from men who impregnated them. The unemployed health professionals will also transition their livelihood from idleness to resourceful health practices working as ambassadors of change in promoting maternal health.

This solution will impact lives of poor women who are not able to access proper maternal services yet they have a right to sex so that they receive equal treatment without discrimination because every life matter irrespective of their situation and background. This will build confidence within unofficially married women so that they have safe births and care for their new born diseases and build a strong next generation of new born babies.

The alignment is from the basis of providing maternal services directly to unofficially married women by providing an intersection for maternal health  care between poor women and professional unemployed health workers. The solution will provide a situations report and early signal as a community alarm to raise awareness and develop a quick intervention for expectant mothers so that every expectant mother has been assigned with a health worker to take charge, control and make sure materials necessary are available.

The solution will provide maternal health services to poor women and those in hard to reach areas who are not able to access maternal health services, it will provide an intersection for maternal health between unemployed health workers and poor women as resourceful people and champions in fighting negatives impacts that come with unintended pregnancy that will act as a stepping stone to reduced maternal death, promoting access to maternal health care services in communities and hard to reach areas as well as bridging the gap between rich women and poor women in accessing maternal services.

This solution will use a digital app technology using GPS to give location of the intended party to be reached quickly with proper planning.

This technology has worked in car tracking devices that gives coordinates for a given location.

we are five (5) people working on this solution. We have the chairperson, secretary, coordinator, finance officer and advisor.

Because of our experience and skills in design and implementation to the community we are known to.

Yearning Voices Foundation and Wilmat Development Foundation

This business model will extend maternal health care services to the under served population. It will provide maternal care services, maternal care education, mobile pick up services, guidance and counseling. This is because the under served population live in hard to reach areas or have pregnancies that are not planned so taking maternal care becomes a problem.

We shall apply for grants, donations and local revenue from the services offered to the rich population that is able to pay.