Johns Hopkins affiliate Jhpiego receives $200,000 grant from ExxonMobil for
midwifery training in Aceh, Indonesia
03 October 2005
Baltimore, Md. – Jhpiego, an
international health affiliate of The Johns Hopkins University, has received
a $200,000 grant from the ExxonMobil Foundation to build the capacity for
midwifery training in Aceh, Indonesia. Aceh was one of the areas hardest hit
by the December 2004 tsunami.
The project, funded by ExxonMobil’s Educating Women and
Girls initiative, will focus on faculty development and educational
improvements at North Aceh Health Academy, including teaching and technical
training, and updating and improving the reference library, skills laboratory
and clinical practice sites. Central to the project will be the development of
an exchange/technical advisory program with a more established midwifery
school. This will allow students a broader range of educational opportunities
while elevating standards for midwifery training in Aceh.
"We are deeply grateful for ExxonMobil’s support of our work
with midwives in Aceh," said Dr. Leslie Mancuso, President and CEO of
Jhpiego. "The tsunami devastated the health care infrastructure in this region
of Indonesia. This grant will facilitate the education of a new generation of
midwives capable of providing health care for women and children."
Jhpiego has maintained health care programs in Indonesia
since its founding more than 32 years ago. Immediately after the tsunami struck
on December 26, 2004, Jhpiego’s Jakarta-based staff began assisting the
Indonesian Midwives Association to relocate midwives from provinces throughout
Indonesia to work in Aceh resettlement camps.
"Jhpiego’s commitment to Indonesia is for the long term.
The ExxonMobil grant will help us accomplish our goal of reestablishing and
strengthening midwifery services in Aceh. By educating midwives, we will help
women survive economically and recover emotionally from the tsunami, and
provide essential health care services for women and families," concluded
Mancuso.
About Jhpiego
For nearly 40 years, Jhpiego, (pronounced "ja-pie-go"), has empowered front-line health
workers by designing and implementing simple, low-cost, hands-on solutions that
strengthen the delivery of health care services, following the
household-to-hospital continuum of care. We partner with community- to
national-level organizations to build sustainable, local capacity through
advocacy, policy and guidelines development, and quality and performance
improvement approaches.
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