A part of Operation Mercy National BLiSS Program manager's responsibility is the routine monitoring and evaluation of the partner organizations that we have previously trained. In November 2011 an evaluation took place in the City of Herat, Afghanistan. Our National BLiSS manager was interviewing BLiSS participants to better understand the…
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Afghan village acknowledges the change after BLiSS course |
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 09:24 Written by Op Mercy Afghanistan |
An Afghan village where BLiSS courses positively impact the local community.
Afghanistan has the one of the highest fertility rates in the world with 6.6 children per mother (UNICEF, 2008) while at the same time the second highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world: on average, in their first year, 153/1,000 children die (CIA Fact Book, 2010). More than…
BLiSS National Program
Birth Life Saving Skills (BLiSS) training continues to be tremendously effective in providing safer environments for pregnant mothers and infants both during and after childbirth. Our participatory educational training is being modeled and taught amongst other NGO’s working with women in Afghanistan to reduce mother and infant mortality rates. Training men and women to teach BLiSS is an effective means to reproduce this valuable work.
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