Emirates International Charity Foundation has been providing shipments of fresh fruits and vegetables, hygiene kits, medicine for clinics and hospitals, therapeutic foods to combat child malnutrition, and shelter materials such as tarps and tents. Each shipment helps families in Gaza protect their children, access essential nutrition, maintain hygiene, and regain a sense of safety and dignity amid displacement. By partnering with local leaders and organizations, we ensure aid reaches those who need it most, supporting communities as they recover and rebuild in the face of ongoing challenges.

Programs

Healthcare Is a Right

We believe access to quality healthcare is a basic human right. We collaborate with partners to build locally sustainable healthcare solutions so that women and children can lead healthier lives worldwide.

Change Begins with Her
Women and children are among the world's most vulnerable populations, disproportionately affected by illness, poverty, and economic disparities. Healthy, educated, empowered women are better able to raise healthy, educated, confident daughters and sons.

By empowering women to overcome the effects of poverty and poor health, they can and will live full and productive lives—and so will their children, families, and communities.

Maternal Health
Increasing Access to Healthcare Services for Women at Risk

According to the World Health Organization, hundreds of women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications around the world every day. Almost all of these maternal deaths occur in low-resource settings, and most could have been prevented.

Emirates International Charity Foundation works in countries with the highest maternal mortality rates in Africa and the Americas. Globally, our maternal health programs focus on the best outcomes for mothers and children. Failure to identify risk factors, lack of early screening to detect STDs, inattention to hygiene and health, delayed identification of pregnancy, and a tradition of home births are factors which can endanger a baby’s healthy growth and the health of her mother.

South Sudan has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rate; Haiti’s is the highest in the Western Hemisphere.
We make long term commitments to communities globally. We collaborate with local institutions and health personnel to create integrated, consistent responses targeting killers of women of childbearing age, pregnant women, and newborns. We focus on providing antenatal care to prevent and treat complications.

Interventions include:
. Increasing access to focused antenatal care, facility-based deliveries, and skilled birth attendants.
. Identification and management of infectious diseases, including HIV, syphilis, and other sexually transmitted infections.
. Promotion of tetanus toxoid immunization.
. Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria during pregnancy.
. Management of obstetric complications such as preeclampsia and hemorrhage.
. Education to promote the use of skilled facility-based deliveries and healthy behaviors such as breastfeeding, early postnatal care, and planning for optimal pregnancy spacing.

Emirates International Charity Foundation also addresses cultural, behavioral, socioeconomic, health system, and other challenges, especially those that contribute to the three primary delays that inhibit pregnant women from reaching maternal care:

. Delay in the decision to seek care.
. Delay in identifying and reaching a health facility that provides maternal care.
. Delay in receipt of adequate and appropriate treatment.

Evidence shows that by addressing these delays, we can positively impact a mother’s utilization of critical health services and her maternal health outcomes.

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