Haiti—A Test Case
Haiti, a small island in the Caribbean, still suffers with the highest maternal mortality rates in the Western Hemisphere.
Haiti, a small island in the Caribbean, still suffers with the highest maternal mortality rates in the Western Hemisphere.
One in 67 Haitian women will die over the course of their lifetime from pregnancy and childbirth. Mimsi develops prenatal & postpartum healthcare delivery systems that have reduced the risk down to 1 in 1300 in the last five years.
Every five minutes, three women around the world die from pregnancy & childbirth because of “gaps”—gaps in healthcare access; gaps in medical capacity; gaps in personal finance; and gaps in infrastructure. These discontinuities contribute to the breakdown of families, especially in Haiti when a mother dies in childbirth.
Mimsi has touched the lives of more than 8,500 women and their families. And now we aim to reduce their lifetime risk down to 1 in 2000 across Haiti.
We recognize though that there are still hundreds of women in neighboring regions facing similar obstacles that threaten their lives.
To expand to these communities, Mimsi must recruit more community members and transform them into staff. And Mimsi must create a new method to bring care to these regions and communicate information to partnering medical facilities.
Mimsi has succeeded to bring prenatal care providers to pregnant women living at the last mile.
But as demands on the small mobile clinic increase, we must replicate a prenatal healthcare delivery system that reaches women far and wide, that inspires confidence, and that opens doors to medical facilities for these women.
Mimsi has developed a curriculum called “MAPPS”, which stands for Modeling Access to Prenatal & Postpartum Services. The first course is called the Prenatal Care Provider Training Program, and we intend to enroll 250 community members into it over the next three years.
As members—75% young women—complete courses and become staff, Mimsi intends to outfit them with new prenatal vehicles to drive staff to remote areas of Haiti needing our prenatal services.
Inside the vehicles, pregnant women will encounter trained providers who can survey their health and assess the pregnancy with labs, exams, and ultrasounds, while inputting all the data into our AI-driven Prenatal Cloud app.
So, what initially seems insurmountable…
…creates an opportunity for Mimsi to implement new technology and educational programs to reach efficiently 20-times more pregnant women faster than most NGOs in Haiti.
Mimsi sees a need to grow and cultivate a community of supporters who regularly donate to Mimsi and support its operations in the field.
Help expand free pregnancy care throughout Haiti with Mimsi for $9/month. Donate today and sign up for one of our monthly donation amounts.
Mimsi needs major donors and foundations to support our prenatal and postpartum operations and training programs.
To Major Donors: Help grow MAPPS throughout Haiti to train and employ more young women to offer free pregnancy care to vulnerable women in rural Haiti. Consider a gift of $5000 to Mimsi to support MAPPS.
To Foundations: Partner with Mimsi to transform prenatal and postpartum care access in Haiti. Consider a significant gift to grow MAPPS throughout Haiti and employ many young Haitian women to fight against maternal and infant mortality.
Mimsi is recruiting onto its Board of Directors professionals—especially women—to steward Mimsi as it implements its strategy throughout Haiti and catapults into being the pregnancy care delivery system in Haiti.
To Potential Board Member: Raise the bar to make pregnancy and childbirth safer around the world by taking Mimsi global. Join the Board of Directors at Mimsi to raise money and increase awareness around this issue that kills hundreds of thousands of mothers globally.
Mimsi sets a new standard for maternal-child healthcare delivery, raising the bar in communities of the last mile and permitting introduction of Mimsi in other countries with high maternal mortality.
Created by Dominic Silva in collaboration with Dr. Winfred Tovar MD.