Maternal Health & Wellness
Engage and support women throughout pregnancy
Healthy pregnancies require more than a single service.
The Mansaray Foundation's Maternal Health & Wellness Program creates a welcoming point of connection for pregnant women in rural communities, combining maternal-health education, antenatal-care engagement, pregnancy support, preventive nutrition education, referrals, follow-up, and a nutritious community meal.
Our experience in our rural catchment communities has shown that acute malnutrition is not currently a major presenting concern among the pregnant women and children we serve. For this reason, TMF has evolved its traditional feeding program from general food distribution into a broader maternal-health engagement initiative.
The nutritious community meal remains an important expression of care and community, but meals served are no longer the primary measure of program impact.
Meals remain an important expression of care, but our impact is measured by the maternal-health journey that happens around them.
What women receive
Participants may receive:
- Maternal-health and pregnancy education
- Healthy eating and preventive nutrition education
- Pregnancy danger-sign education
- ANC encouragement and follow-up
- Connection to TMF ultrasound services where appropriate
- Referral support
- Birth-preparedness introduction
- A nutritious community meal
- Continued pregnancy engagement
Our impact
Verified results previously published by the Foundation, including work delivered under the Feeding Program.
0+
Women and children fed
Feeding Program, to date
0-fold
Increase in antenatal visits
Kabombeh
Now tracking
Unique pregnant women engaged
Now tracking
Now tracking
Maternal Health Day participation
Now tracking
Source: Reported by The Mansaray Foundation, mansarayfoundation.org
- Formerly
- The Feeding Program (2019–2025)
- Supports
- Pregnant women, mothers, and families in partner communities
- Delivered at
- Maternal Health Days and partner health facilities
The Maternal Health & Wellness pathway
01 · Engage
Community outreach and Maternal Health Days.
02 · Assess
Registration, maternal-health assessment, ANC connection, and ultrasound where appropriate.
03 · Educate
Healthy pregnancy, nutrition, danger signs, and birth-preparedness education.
04 · Connect to care
ANC, ultrasound, referral, birth preparedness, and other appropriate services.
05 · Follow up
Continued engagement throughout pregnancy and postnatal follow-up where applicable.
The nutritious community meal is an important component of Maternal Health Days — not the endpoint of the maternal-health journey.
Nourishing mothers, together.
Shared meals bring pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children together at the health facility, alongside the care and education they receive there.
Sharing food and connection.
Women at the centre of care.
Health facilities are where pregnant women connect with antenatal care, nutrition education, and the wider support that keeps mothers well.
Measuring the maternal-health journey
TMF is moving beyond counting only meals distributed. As part of the redesigned program model, we are building the systems to follow what happens around each Maternal Health Day.
Meals remain an important expression of care, but our impact is measured by the maternal-health journey that happens around them.
TMF is now tracking
- Unique pregnant women engaged
- Maternal Health Day participation
- ANC participation and follow-up
- Ultrasound services accessed
- Pregnancy education
- Birth-preparedness engagement
- Referrals identified and completed
- Continued participation during pregnancy
- Postnatal follow-up where applicable
These are indicators TMF is introducing — not results already achieved.