Al-Jaifi selected as WRA Executive Board member
The Source: www.sabanews.net - 07/12/2009
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Head of the he National Safe Motherhood Alliance (NSMA) Nafisa Hamoud Al-Jaifi has been awarded the membership of the Executive Board of the Washington-based White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA). A press release issued by the WRA showed that Al-Jaifi's membership came after won a vote among all the alliance members.Al-Jaifi will start her activities in the WRA from the beginning of January 2010 and for three years, according to the press release.White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA) is a non-partisan, non-profit and non-governmental membership organization. It aims to decrease maternal and newborn death globally.The WRA is a grassroots movement that builds alliances, strengthens capacity, influences policies, harnesses resources, and inspires action to save the lives of women and newborns around the world.It is an international coalition of individuals and organizations formed to promote increased public awareness of the need to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for all women and newborns in developing, as well as, developed countries.It began in 1999 through the efforts of a group of individuals and organizations committed to raising awareness of the over 500,000 needless deaths each year due to pregnancy and childbirth complications.The WRA’s advocacy efforts grew from 1999 to 2009 into a global movement with thousands of individual and organization members in over 100 countries.
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