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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