APPEAL: Davina on Maternal Mortality
A lack of decent health care, poverty and deprivation cause women to die during pregnancy and childbirth every day across Africa. In fact, 57% of births in Sub-Saharan Africa take place without any help from a skilled nurse, midwife or doctor.Ìý £40 could buy a bicycle ambulance for a village. These bicycles, fitted with a stretcher trailer, can be a quick and easy way of getting a pregnant women to a health clinic in time to save her life.
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At 13th Mar 2009, buffyharmony wrote:i have given money tonight and it breaks my heart as someone who cant have children,lost my baby is oct,my heart reaches out so so far to the tiny babies,in this day in age it really shouldnt be like this,i hope the money can make a real difference xxx
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Comment number 2.
At 13th Mar 2009, zalvation wrote:Why are these women getting pregnant in the first place? Are they not aware of the dangers to their babies? If not, who is responsible for the education of these mothers? And where is the World Health Organisation in all of this? If £5.00 pays for a malaria net what priority is given to this by the existing organisations we support through Government projects and the money provided by the WHO?
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At 13th Mar 2009, LisaBlackwell wrote:This was the most moving appeal of the night so far! I had already text Yes to donate £5 but Davina and Fern getting all chocked up after the video sent me rushing to the phone to donate more! Real emotion from real people like these two fab ladies is lovely to see - well done girls I'm sure your hard work tonight will be generously rewarded in the next big total !!!
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Comment number 4.
At 13th Mar 2009, invisibleloveoflife wrote:I am so upset to have learned that Red Nose Day money goes, amongst really good causes, to support abortion! That is such a contradiction of what it is people are trying to do here to-night. Please look into this and put an end to it. - Blessings - Rene
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Comment number 5.
At 13th Mar 2009, kentelefun wrote:Zalvation's questions need answers. I suspect a lot of aid money ends up in crooked people's bank accounts.
Having said that, if Martians were to visit us and see the wealth of Europe and the wretched lives of people living a few hundred miles away in Africa, they would rightly wonder what makes us humans tick.
It's a sad, sad situation and £5 won't hurt me. It may just save a life so that's a punt I'm prepared to take. But we need to be sure the funds are not being creamed off otherwise we're in this for life.
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Comment number 6.
At 14th Mar 2009, zalvation wrote:I can appreciate the entire sentiment in this whole enterprise but instead of appealing to our collective conscience how many of our celebrities are talking to the relative Governments of these African nations to find out what they are spending on humanitarian projects? This is quite simply a political issue. How can any one of these projects be struggling to offer the help needed if the global organisations we support through Government schemes and tax efficient donations are not enough? Charity is the thin edge of this tragic wedge...
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Comment number 7.
At 14th Mar 2009, zalvation wrote:I'm not a celebrity, so how do I make it to the 'latest contributors' list? Who are David Thair and Danny Robins anyway?
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