ABOUT THE MANSARAY FOUNDATION
Who we are
The Mansaray Foundation (TMF), a USA 501 C-3 nonprofit organization working in rural Sierra Leone, is dedicated to creating safer births, reducing maternal mortality, and improving the quality of life of child-bearing-aged rural women in Sierra Leone
Our Mission
To transform maternal and infant health outcomes in rural Sierra Leone by establishing equitable, high-quality, and sustainable care systems in partnership with local communities and global health experts.
The Mansaray Foundation (TMF), a USA 501 C-3 nonprofit organization working in rural Sierra Leone, dedicated to creating safer births, reducing maternal mortality, and improving the quality of life of child-bearing aged rural women in Sierra Leone. With a focus on improving access to care, service delivery systems, and the quality of maternal healthcare, TMF has embarked on several impactful projects.
Our Core Strategies
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Elevate Clinical Capacity and Quality of Care
1. Goal: Standardize and deliver high-quality, life-saving clinical services at all supported rural clinics.
2. Focus: Equipping staff with critical skills (medical training), essential tools (point-of-care ultrasound), and sufficient resources (medical supplies) to ensure safe, high-volume deliveries in an appropriate environment (delivery room expansions).
○ Moving forward, a critical objective under this priority will be the integration of a Maternal Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Service through a task-sharing model, in line with global best practices.
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Combat Malnutrition and Promote Holistic Wellness
1. Goal: Address key non-clinical determinants of maternal and child health, particularly nutrition and resource stability.
2. Focus: Implementing direct nutritional support (feeding program), leveraging community-level solutions (backyard farming), and providing necessary supplements (Vitamin Angels partnership), alongside basic infrastructure improvements (solar power) that impact all aspects of care.
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Enhance Equitable Access and Community Engagement
1. Goal: Increase the utilization of facility-based maternal care services across the care continuum.
2. Focus: Leveraging grassroots outreach, advocacy, and incentives (birthing buckets) to overcome geographic and cultural barriers, ensuring all rural women are reached with preventative care (ANC education, SRH/teen pregnancy prevention).
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Drive Systemic Sustainability and Scalability
1. Goal: Ensure The Mansaray Foundation's high-impact programs endure, are locally managed, and influence broader policy change.
2. Focus: Developing local leadership and maintenance capacity, formalizing successful grassroots models for potential replication, and building long-term partnerships with the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders.
a note from the founder
After years away, finally being home, and for more than just a visit, is beyond exciting. While I am looking forward to being with my Sierra Leone family, my mission here is much more serious.
I am returning home after 23 years in the United States Army and as a senior executive at the White House to fight for our families, to end this crisis, and to save our mothers. To do this, I will need all of you. We must visit each of our clinics, meet with medical professionals, listen, learn, and observe all that we can so that our experts can best assess what needs to change.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “It's a funny thing about coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed is you."
My Journey home has been many years in the making. No matter what part of the world I was in, Sierra Leone always remained at the forefront of my heart and mind.
Speak up if you want to bring change to the world.
Waiting is something I cannot do, my father would never have allowed it. I was not raised to sit idly by while our people were left to suffer.
And so the Journey must begin. Together, we will bring about the change Sierra Leone so desperately needs. This is our mission, to change and save lives. To fight for our mothers!