That’s how long it took 27 members of Birmingham University’s Wilderness Society to complete the gruelling three peaks challenge - climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon in under 24 hours in support of Ammalife! If driving 462 miles and climbing a total of 3407m in 24 hours was not challenging enough, life threw in heavy [...]
Summer is here and we're looking forward to a fun and relaxing evening of musical entertainment at St Mary's church in Moseley, Birmingham on Thursday 27th August. The King's Men are the adult members of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. They gave their first tour performance in Birmingham last year, to a rapturous reception at a [...]
Show your love on Mother's Day and share your care for another mother with this lovely idea dreamt up by Ammalife's student supporters. It's so simple and we know your mum will glow with pride when she sees what you're doing. How's it work? Share a photo of your mum on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram Add [...]
Do you remember GLOWing in 2013? We can't wait for the next chance to catch up with conference delegates old and new on Wednesday 4th March, in celebration of International Women's Day. GLOW is for academics and postgraduate students engaged in global maternal, newborn, child and reproductive health. The annual GLOW conference provides an opportunity for academics [...]
Amie Wilson PhD was Ammalife's first researcher and the work she did continues to have impact and influence policy. Now her work on Emergency Transport has been quoted in the Translating Research into Practice Series published by Harvard University's Maternal Health Task Force. The MHTF disseminates evidence and information to policy makers worldwide. We're very pleased [...]
The wonderful people who work at Birmingham Women's Hospital are the link! Today, they raised £272 to help midwives at the Chatinka Maternity Unit (Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Malawi) refurbish part of the Labour Ward. That's enough to buy sheets for the mattresses and curtains for the cubicles. But it's much more than a makeover - these [...]
Huge thanks to those generous folks who helped us reach this year's Big Give Christmas Challenge target of £4000. Each year, the Big Give selects small charities and runs a fundraising campaign over just 3 days. Online donations are doubled during that time. The pot of matching money is usually gone with 30 minutes of opening [...]
We're delighted to announce Ammalife's third Bursary for outstanding Clinical Officers from Malawi. Dr Paul O'Hare's generous bequest in memory of his father means that Yolam Kameme, an experienced Clinical Officer, will now be able to attend medical school and qualify as a doctor. Yolam graduated with a BSc (First Class Honors) from Warwick University last [...]
As many of you will know, Ammalife has been supporting a radical approach to saving mothers' lives in the mountains of Pakistan - and it has nothing to do with hi-tech medicine. We've made sure that mothers can reach expert help when things go wrong by developing a community based taxi service that prioritises mothers in [...]
Diary Alert: 6.00pm on Tuesday 18 November 2014 The Edge of Joy is a documentary film that follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and families to the frontlines of maternal care. Inside a maternity ward, the film chronicles distressed labors, deaths, and miraculous survival. Outside, lack of blood supply transportation and family planning are examined as causes [...]
