Update on Banneh's Mother's Day match

This Mother’s Day, help more mothers and babies thrive. [Happy Mother's Day From Project HOPE]( Dear Friend — Below is Thursday’s message from Banneh, one of Project HOPE’s Program Managers. She wants to help more moms and babies in Sierra Leone and around the world have the best chance for survival. So, she set a Mother’s Day goal to raise $50,000 for Project HOPE by 11:59 PM tonight. [Many caring people like you have donated. Your gift, which matching funds will double, can get us to $50,000.]( Your contribution won’t just bring critical support to people around the world... it can help ensure that birth attendants are available for women in labor, train neonatal nurses to treat sick and premature newborns and teach moms how best to keep their babies healthy. [Match My Gift]( Every dollar can make a lifesaving difference. With gratitude and urgency, Rabih Torbay President & CEO Project HOPE P.S. Here’s a direct link to make a 2X-multiplied gift to help Banneh meet her $50,000 Mother’s Day goal to rush aid to pregnant women and babies around the world. [ProjectHOPE.org/Banneh](. Too many new moms and babies are dying because they don’t have the care they need. [DONATE >>]( [Project HOPE Logo]( [Match My Gift]( [The Best Way to Celebrate Mother’s Day: Help Moms and Babies Thrive]( [Project HOPE's Banneh Daramy with Aisha at a follow-up visit for babies previously discharged from the Special Care Baby Unit.]( [THERM]( MOTHER'S DAY FUNDS RAISED: $8,326 GOAL: $50,000 Dear Friend, It’s Banneh from Sierra Leone! Since I sent my email on Tuesday, many of your fellow Project HOPE supporters have donated to help me raise $50,000 by Mother’s Day. [Please help by making your gift now when matching funds will double your impact for moms, babies and families.]( You will be helping deliver HOPE for babies like Aisha. Born weighing only three pounds, Aisha was admitted to the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) at a children’s hospital in Sierra Leone. Project HOPE provides the SBCU with lifesaving training for neonatal nurses and other health care providers — as well as training to the hospital’s maintenance staff so they can keep the limited, but critical medical equipment they have operating correctly. And this year, we’re repairing the SBCU’s water tank so new moms and babies will have clean water again. [Inset headshot image] After three weeks in the SCBU, Aisha gained nearly one pound and was able to be moved to the Kangaroo Care Unit established by Project HOPE. Here, nurses helped her mother, Khadija, nurse and hold her daughter skin-to-skin. One year later, Aisha is a small, but strong baby at eleven pounds with no complications. Aisha’s story shows us that, even in a country with some of the highest neonatal mortality rates in the world, there is HOPE when we come together. [I’m calling on you to help more babies thrive in Sierra Leone and provide health care across the world. Please make your best gift by May 12, while every $1 you donate equals $2.]( In the SCBU and in neonatal units around the world, health care workers provide lifesaving care for mothers and infants — some of whom need respiratory support for fighting deadly infections like sepsis. But as resourceful and determined as health workers are, they can’t do it alone. Your generosity can support lifesaving work here in Sierra Leone, Gaza, Haiti and communities around the world. Please celebrate Mother’s Day by helping save lives. It’s the most meaningful gift you can make. With urgency and thanks, [Banneh Daramy Headshot] Banneh Daramy Project HOPE Program Officer Sierra Leone [Match My Gift]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( [TikTok]( [ProjectHOPE.org]( PO Box 3270, Harlan IA 51593-0450 | 844.[349.0188](#) © 2024 Project HOPE. All rights reserved. Through May 12, your gift will be matched up to $600,000. A gift to this appeal will be used to support Project HOPE’s global emergency response, medical, educational and humanitarian assistance programs, wherever the need is greatest. Project HOPE — The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. Dba Project HOPE is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, CFC #11115, EIN 53-0242962. [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Financial Accountability]( | [View this email online]( [online fundraising, advocacy & donor database]( [nonprofit software](