Last call to support our work and Carmela, Criselda and Estela of the women-led collective Sbelal Kuxlejalil, who have built nine ecological stoves to create smoke-free homes for their kids. Join us at: donate.givedirect.org?cid=13538 Every gift saves lives. We're deeply grateful! #IndigenousWomen
As 2025 comes to a close, we're celebrating a milestone that's been a year in the making. After months of collaborative effort, Yajalón General Hospital is now officially opening its doors to traditional Indigenous midwives. #IndigenousWomen #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity
This year, we're bringing experienced Indigenous midwives together with apprentices to honor ancestral knowledge while incorporating life-saving techniques from Western medicine. We're honoring these midwives in this moving short film:
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On this week’s episode of #TheDosePodcast, Elaine Welteroth talks with @joelbervell.bsky.social about how she turned disillusionment with her own birth experience into a new movement focused on funding midwifery care and saving mothers’ lives. #MaternalHealth
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Honored to share the powerful story of Beatriz Pérez, our warrior for Respectful Maternal Care in the Tsotsil-Maya region of Chiapas! bit.ly/4p8mZHz #maternalcare #indigenouswomen
Next in our Safe Births/Healthy Children Campaign: María García of the GPA team. María grew up in Chiapas in the same community she now serves. Her work helps ensure that women and children live free from obstetric violence. Join us — a Safe Birth is the greatest gift! bit.ly/4i7xDwE #healthequity
We're launching our Safe Births Campaign, celebrating
Meet Doña Leonida, a Mayan midwife from Quintana Roo. She's pictured with Kate del Rocio, inspired by Leonida delivering her baby to pursue community health work. Join us — a Safe Birth is the greatest gift! bit.ly/4i7xDwE #midwives #motherhood
Indigenous midwives came together to reflect on the qualities they cultivate for leadership. They came up with: Unity, Listening, Responsibility, Commitment, Wisdom,Generosity, Humility and more. At least someone is getting it right these days! #Leadership #WomensEmpowerment
These women are leaders of the midwives movement in Southern Mexico. They're meeting with local health authorities to ensure that national health system changes result in real change in their communities. Here they are pictured with health officials from the regional government. They're meeting as a part of regional working groups to improve maternal health and support the work of traditional midwives, an essential source of care in rural communities.
These women, leaders of the midwives movement, are just a few of the Grassroots Warriors we work with in Southern Mexico. Their perseverance is an example for us all. #maternalhealth #grassrootschange
These women are standing in line for preventive health services, carrying their babies in slings. They live in rural communities in Southern Mexico where hospitals and doctors are far away. When the whole community comes together at a clinic it's a good opportunity for families to get health status monitoring, routine checkups and vaccines. GPA works with local organizations and health authorities to ensure these community health fairs reach those most in need.
Community health fairs are a lifeline for Indigenous communities, especially their women and children. Every child deserves the chance to grow up healthy, and every mother deserves access to the care she needs to keep her family thriving! #HealthEquity #MaternalHealth #CommunityHealth
Participants meet for a presentation on how to prevent maternal death in Indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico, where pregnant women face high levels of maternal mortality. Many maternal deaths in the region are preventable and due to root causes of lack of access to care and poverty.
Thanks to our colleagues at Alianza Kimon A'tel for a great session on Preventing Maternal Death. And a big thanks to the attendees, men and women from the Community Health Council in San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas, for your commitment to addressing maternal mortality! #MaternalHealth #RuralHealth
Wisdom in Action = Women's Health!
Recently midwives from the Nich Ixim Midwives Movement in Chiapas came together in a sacred space, as women with 40+ years of experience passed the torch to young midwives and those just beginning their training. #IndigenousKnowledge #CommunityHealth #Midwifery
Indigenous midwives in Panama strive to preserve traditional medicine for maternal health
Indigenous midwives in Panama strive to preserve traditional medicine for maternal health – Mongabay | #Indigenous #Health | MORE at EcoSearch
Doña Maria, an Indigenous midwife, has provided care to pregnant women for sixty years in the rural Indigenous community in Mexico where she lives.
Indigenous midwives from rural Indigenous communities in Mexico and Guatemala come together to share information about their work and the women they support. Traditional Indigenous midwives are the backbone of the communities where they work, where pregnant women often lack care because the hospital or health clinic is too far away.
Doña Maria sometimes travels long distances to reach the remote, rural communities in Southern Mexico where she provides care to pregnant women and those giving birth. Traditional midwives carry out an important function in these communities, providing needed maternal care and also passing on traditional knowledge and practices.
Our 2024 Impact Report is here! bit.ly/4pMPoF1
130,000+ people reached
17,000+ community members served through grassroots partners
500+ health professionals trained
324+ traditional Indigenous midwives supported
Indigenous women are leading the way in making life-saving care possible.
In rural Chiapas, Mexico, midwives, local organizations and health officials met to establish a Health Roundtable to discuss the critical shortage of health professionals in the community.
Coming together is a precursor to solving big problems. Thanks to the midwives, promotoras, local orgs. and officials who joined us to discuss critical health personnel shortages in Sitalá, Chiapas. Access to care means healthier communities! #AccesstoCare #ChiapasMexico #HealthEquity
The cover of GPA's 2024 Impact Report shares a photo of a wise elder, a traditional Indigenous midwife who has served her Indigenous community in Mexico for over 60 years. She wears traditional Maya Indigenous dress and walks rugged paths on foot to attend to pregnant women living far from health centers and hospitals.
At GPA we work alongside Indigenous midwives and the women, children and communities in Mexico and Guatemala they serve. Every woman deserves quality, equitable & respectful maternal care.
Get to know us in our 2024 Impact Report: bit.ly/41vKeme
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