our work
One people, one fight #fightforourmothers
TMF Priorities
Improve access to care. Strengthening and empowering rural maternal health care through concerted outreach to the outlying villages. Utilizing the skillsets of TMF Founder and our diverse Volunteer Team, we are directly assisting and supporting the Peripheral Health Unit staff. Proudly embarking on donating birthing buckets to encourage women to deliver at the clinic and not at home thereby reducing risk of maternal deaths. We are also embarking on a feeding program for pregnant, lactating women and children under 5 to to improve access to antenatal care and address malnutrition in this vulnerable population. To date we have fed 5500 pregnant and lactating women and children under 5. Our birthweights have increased in our neonates, signs and symptoms of anemia has reduced in our pregnant women and lactating women are producing enough milk to breastfeed to 6 months and beyond.
Improve service delivery systems. Through key stakeholder engagements, donor support of medical supplies and equipment, TMF is working hand-in-hand with the healthcare workers and the community to improve maternal healthcare. Various much needed in-kind donations of medical equipment have been supplied to the rural clinics.
Improve the quality of care. As a certified Physician Assistant, the founder and the Medical Advisory Board members serve as clinical educators reinforcing and educating the clinical staff on obstetric emergencies, mental health, routine, and antenatal health care. The foundation also seeks to enhance the medical supplies and equipment in the clinics for better patient care and outcomes.
Our partnered clinics
Panlap
health centre
This clinic covers 14 communities of over 7,000 in population. The clinic lacks running water, a proper ceiling, suitable cribs, ultrasound / doppler machines, plastics sheets for the delivery beds, do not provide food for patients and no medical transport.
bINKOLO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
Covering 15 communities and 9,552 people.
The clinic lacks quality medical equipment, inadequate staffing, inadequate infrastructure that forces them to do antenatal and postnatal care in one confined space, no sheets for postnatal beds, no
mattresses for their cribs, do not provide food for patients and no medical transport.
KABOMBEH VILLAGE CLINIC
This clinic covers 6 communities, with over 4,000 people.The community has strong cultural norms where pregnant women prefer to deliver at home, there is a significant lack of medical supplies and equipment, very confined space for deliveries and no medical transport.
KATHENEH MCHP
Covering 4 communities and 1,755 people.
KMCHP has one delivery bed with minimal to no equipment and no electricity. This is the basic and lowest level of care in the healthcare system.
Agricultural efforts
The Kabombeh Village gave the community land to grow crops in The Mansaray Foundation’s efforts to ensure proper nutrition for our pregnant, lactating mothers and children under 5. This is a community effort and will be maintained by them. A committee has been formed to ensure all members of the community are represented (women, youth, farmers, and local leadership). We thank Kabombeh for believing in our cause and for taking the lead on being part of the local solutions to their maternal health problems. The foundation will provide crop and technical support ensuring that farming practices are environmentally safe. The work has started with 200 beds planted thus far with rich micronutrient filled crops!
sexual reproductive health (SRH) awareness
The Mansaray Foundation focused on sustainable solutions has spearheaded several sexual reproductive health awareness and teenage pregnancy prevention campaigns at communities served by our partner clinics in Masongbo, Panlap and Binkolo. With the local leadership, religious leaders, teachers, a community health nurse, and a teenage mother we educated youth between the ages of 12-19 on the consequences of teenage pregnancy, maternal mortality, and the clinic resources available to them. Important to note that 3 out of 8 teenagers are mothers. To date we have reached over 5000 students and piloting a teenage pregnancy reduction program in the Binkolo Catholic Secondary School. We look forward to many more concerted health promotion and awareness campaigns in efforts to reduce teenage pregnancy and maternal mortality in rural Sierra Leone.
Educational outreach
TMF Founder and certified Physician Assistant Saibatu Mansaray has consistently spent time working with the staff of Masongbo, Panlap and Binkolo Community Health Centers on both computer based and simulation training efforts. Our work has never been more pressing, our rural families and the health workers who care for them need our unified support.
Prevention & treatment outreach
In concert with the clinical staff of our partnered clinics, The Mansaray Foundation conducted a successful Prevention and Treatment Outreach Session in 3 Chiefdoms. Education sessions like these, where we encourage healthy pregnancy and lactating lifestyles, remind them of the danger signs, and provide a guide for proper nutrition, are the first steps in ensuring healthy and successful pregnancies and postpartum for our rural mothers. This is an ongoing initiative.
Staff from the Masongbo CHC and the Panlap CHC THANK THE TMF DONORS!
solar installations
The Mansaray Foundation’s multi-stakeholder approach to reducing maternal mortality, partnered with GIZ to install solar systems in 4 health centers. These partnerships are essential as we take on this challenging task of reducing maternal deaths in rural Sierra Leone. The midwives will no longer use flashlights to deliver babies at night. We extend our sincere gratitude to GIZ for being part of the solution to improving the quality of care in Sierra Leone.
