Erica Sufani

Our remarkable leader/founder of our non-profit organisation @aminata_conteh_biger is helping to reimagine the future of pregnant women and mothers in Sierra Leone — and among the shortlisted finalists for the @womensagenda 2021 Women Leadership Awards, celebrating on the evening of the 29th April at Swissotel Sydney, talented Australian women who demonstrate strong courage, inventiveness, initiative and compassion in their changing-making roles.

Building AMF's diversified strategic solutions, including autonomous peer-to-peer community partnerships, will help fulfill Aminata's vision in creating a more reinforced infrastructure of the maternal and neonatal care system through improvement in female health wellbeing, safe births, education, and empowerment.

The foundation was born out of Aminata's near-death experience during the delivery of her daughter Sarafina in 2012, who was suffering from shoulder dystocia. This life-threatening event gave her access to quality health care in Australia. Subsequently, it triggered her to change the dramatic reality faced by women in her home country, which has « the world's highest maternal mortality ratio » and high infant mortality, according to the @who. (A country she had no choice but to flee as a refugee in 2000 after being abducted from her father's home in the city of Freetown, used as a sex slave by one of the master rebels during conflicts.)

Humanitarian, activist and special representative for Australia UNHCR, @aminata_conteh_biger bravely recounts her story and trauma in her memoir, "Rising Heart," but also what makes her strength with the conviction that anything that has a heart is linked, that every individual story can echo and push each other upwards.

Tap the link in our bio to read more about our goal of ending preventable maternal and child deaths in Sierra Leone, donate to save the lives of hundreds of mothers and babies, or find her book. Photo by @womensagenda #WALA21
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From the AMF & Aminata’s family to yours and your loved ones, we wish you a very Happy Easter. 🐰🐣🐇
Stay safe ...

What’s your capacity to take risks?

And I’m talking the super calculated one’s.

Not the unplanned one’s.

That’s not risk taking, that’s just plain stupidity.

Are you an aim for the stars, shoot for the moon kind of woman?

Or are you more of a stay within the bounds of societal conditioning, watch others rise from the side lines telling yourself that you don’t have what they’ve got kind of woman?

Those women, we don’t spend time with one another.

It’s an energy thing.

There are the courageous humans in the world who BACK THEMSELVES FULLY.

They’re my kind of women.

They know who they are.

They know where they’re heading.

They trust themselves implicitly.

They take no for an answer and invest their energy in learning how to cultivate more yes’s.

They do the inner work to build their capacity to become the women they are required to be in order to walk the path to achieving their goals with grace, simplicity and flow.

And if anything doesn’t go according to plan, they trust that they will find the resources to pick up the pieces along the way, and bring them all back into laser focused purpose-driven alignment for next-level success.

Beautiful humans,

Your decisions to invest in your personal and business growth have nothing to do with the amount of money you have in your bank account. They’re based on your capacity to give and receive.

❤️Open your hearts,
💫Tune into your innate wisdom,
🦋Listen to your inner whispers,
🙏Strengthen your self-belief,
🙌Live from a place of deep faith in the Universe,
🚀And take courageous action.

6 years ago, a woman sat across from me in a boardroom at an accounting firm overlooking the city, with ZERO business acumen, and said to us,

“I want to know what I have to do to build a not-for-profit organisation that supports Mothers to birth their babies safely in Sierra Leone”

That woman was @aminata_conteh_biger of the @aminatafoundation

❤️ Little did she know that 6 years later she will have facilitated the safe birthing of over 10,000 Mothers and babies in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

❤️ Raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a Maternal Clinic.

👇 Keep reading in the comments below — By @leighjanewoodgate 💛 ...

Today, the right to the truth day we honour the memory of victims that could not tell their stories.

We also celebrate our CEO's memoir where she shares her darkest moments and amazing achievements fighting for women's rights.

*Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's poem that inspired the name of the book.

#womensupportingwomen #womenhistorymonth #mayaangelou #risingheartbook #iwd2021 #therighttothetruthday @aminata_conteh_biger ...

Our lovely CEO this IWD💛💛💛

Posted @withregram • @aminata_conteh_biger There was no place I rather be this morning then @businesschicks IWD breakfast. Thank you so much @businesschicks @emmaisaacs so wonderful to meet you, WoW, you are truly remarkable @janecaro what a educator and warrior you and and the brilliant extraordinarily @teelareid Today was absolutely special.

Choose To Challenge, Always and everywhere!! ...