http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Community midwifery from Al-mahra participates in Community Care program [The Source: MUKALLA/hadharamaut.info - 27/01/2011] Twenty five  Community Midwifery coming from Al-mahra Governorate participated in a training session on Community Care program held  in Mukalla.  The course was organized by the Social Development Fund - Mukalla branch in cooperation with the Office of the Ministry of Health and Population - Hadhramout province. The participants  spent 20 days in this session in which  they received skills, applications of theory and practical on home-based care on mother and newborn health care. . General Director - Fund branch indicated that this course comes in the context of an integrated program for the preparation of skilled community midwifery  in rural areas. The Fund previouslt  did organize two  training sessions  one in Al-sheher and the other one in Ghail Bawazir and this year  plans includes in it the establishment of similar courses in both Al-qatn, Seiyoun, Hadhramout coast areas and Shabwa.  He expressed his hope that this session will send the knowledge and skills the participants learnt   in  the program as well as it will  contribute to the dissemination of health awareness among  peers in their communities.