In Tanzania, maternal and child health care remains a critical issue, especially in rural and low-income communities. Despite some progress in reducing maternal and infant mortality, many challenges persist. According to recent reports, Tanzania’s maternal mortality rate is still high, with many women lacking access to adequate healthcare during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum periods. Poverty, lack of healthcare infrastructure, cultural practices, and limited education about maternal and child health contribute to the ongoing crisis. Many mothers in low-income regions face significant challenges in raising their children, including poor nutrition, lack of clean water, limited access to quality healthcare, and inadequate education on best practices for child care. These factors contribute to high infant mortality rates, malnutrition, and preventable diseases among children. This project addresses these challenges by enhancing maternal and child health care in underprivileged regions of Tanzania, focusing on providing essential services, education, and support to ensure healthy pregnancies and better care for newborns and young children. The overall goal of this project is to improve maternal and child health outcomes in low-income regions of Tanzania by providing affordable healthcare services, education, and resources.
As CCDO we work hard to solve the challenges that face pregnant women before and after delivery through; improving access to maternal health services by establishing or enhancing healthcare facilities in rural areas and providing essential medical supplies, reducing maternal and infant mortality by ensuring skilled health personnel are available for antenatal, delivery, and postnatal care, educating mothers and families on child health, nutrition, and proper child-rearing practices, to combat malnutrition and preventable diseases, supporting vulnerable mothers with access to community-based maternal care, transportation for emergencies, and family planning services and empowering women by providing them with skills and resources to improve their socioeconomic standing, reducing the financial burden on households.
In struggle to support maternal and child care we have witnessed the core sources of their obstacles including limited access of healthcare especially in rural areas in which contribute to lack of adequate infrastructure limited access to clinic or hospitals resulting them to travel a long distance in searching for medical care. Poverty also is among the major obstacle to most of the families as it leads to failure paying for health treatment. This goes together with increased malnutrition rate causing poor growth to children. Other challenges which mothers face include; cultural barriers, inadequate education on maternal and child healthcare together with presence of few trained healthcare personnel. In fighting these challenges CCDO has established a maternal healthcare situated at Nduli in Iringa region which aim to provide care to people across Nduli, Mgongo, Kising’a, Igingilani, ilambilole and Kiwele, training health workers and traditional attendants to improve quality of care and ensure safe delivery to mothers, creating health education outreach to people around the area, providing nutritional support, assisting them with emergency transport and establishing socioeconomic activities such as poultry farming, small scale farming, horticulture and tailoring activities in order to boost their income.
We expect to have improved maternal and child healthcare to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates, increase healthcare access in rural areas through our introduced maternal and child healthcare center, improving nutritional support to the most vulnerable families in order to have healthier children and to empower women in socioeconomic participation with the aim to reduce dependence. With all the efforts we apply to the community still we face some challenges that keep dragging us behind. We wish to save the life of thousands of women in our region but we encounter some challenges including having few medical equipment in our building setting, few health personnel, lack of enough fund to expand the service and low support from the nearby institutions. CCDO is geared to help the community and we hereby welcome individuals, investors, institutions and cooperates from different places across the world to come and join us in this struggle of saving the life of these vulnerable groups.