• Season 1 | Episode 01

A Midwife’s Mission in Cameroon | SDG 3

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She is a recognized voice of knowledge, empowering pregnant women in Cameroon with life-saving information. Through her organization, For Mom and Baby Foundation, Martha is advancing SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being).
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Episode Introduction

Credo Voices, the podcast where we bring you inspiring stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. I’m your host, Awele Okigbo. A pregnant woman dies every two minutes due to complications in childbirth. This happens 800 times a day according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers 2023 report.

By the time you finished listening to this podcast, about 15 women would have died. Giving life shouldn’t cost a life. My guest today is trying to change that. Her name is Ashu Martha Agbornyenty, but she’s Martha to us. She’s a registered midwife in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Cameroon has one of the highest maternal and neonatal mortality rates. Martha’s work to save mothers and their babies is Advancing Sustainable Development Goal 3 – good health and well-being. This is Martha in her own words, sharing her story. Let’s listen and be inspired.
Ashu Martha Agbornyenty
Executive Director
For Mom and Baby Foundation

Martha is a registered midwife and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SHR) specialist with experience working in hospitals across Cameroon.

She is the first Cameroonian Young Midwife Leader (YML) with the International Confederation of Midwives. Martha is passionate about maternal and child health and runs her Facebook blog called Marthie’s Midwifery Diary.

Martha represented Cameroon Midwives in Denmark at the Normal Labour, Normal Birth Conference in September 2022 and was voted Chairperson of her YML cohort. She founded the For Mom and Baby Foundation in 2021 as an active arm of her blog to support mothers and babies in the crisis-stricken zones in Cameroon.

Ashu Martha Agbornyenty was awarded the Goalkeepers 2023 Change Maker Award by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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