Delouse Mums and Babies Project.

1.Problems we are solving: high maternal death in Kwara state of Nigeria 

2.Solution proposed; Educating of community women on seeking medical care and not alternatives by conducting seminars.

3. Women as the greatest influencer of every home will play a key role to determine how resilient every family will be. For this reason, Delouse Mums and Babies hope to affect every family through our NGO - Delouse Rural and Urban women health initiative DRUWHI, that will raise the consciousness of every woman to their wellbeing.

Maternal death rate in this part of the world is alarming. According to WHO statistic 850 women died among 100,000 live birth in Nigeria.

While in the United Kingdom only 16 women died among 100,000 live birth.

It's worth noting, that in Kwara state of Nigeria, the figure is greater than 1000 Maternal death per 100,000 live births since quite numbers of women die during deliveries on daily basis.

Hence, it's our utmost desire to reduce this figure to one of the best in the world.

DRUWHI Delouse Rural and Urban Women's Health Initiative is an NGO arm of Delouse Mums and Babies, designed to raise the standard of community women to value their health and manage the well being of their various family.

We will be educating these women through the use of audio-visual medias.

A. We are targeting reproductive age women in Kwara state of Nigeria. 

Kwara state, state of Harmony comprises of indigenous speakers of various dialects. For instance yoruba, nupe, baruten, fulani etc. 

The rural and remote areas are scattered all over the state and there's  no much development in those areas. Hence women in those places are low income class and illiterates. For this reason private hospitals are rare and most public health center lack well qualified staff.

Since Kwara state is our base and we have worked for 5yrs straight rendering Subsidized services among community women, we were able to identify the reason why the rate of death is extremely high mostly among those in rural areas. We discovered 75% of those women does not register in hospitals but choose other alternative that are readily available and affordable. For instance, traditional birth attendant and faith clinics.

However since  the onset of our program we have gained quite some numbers. Our patients in every community has been fantastic and among them we already have some serving as our referrals.

We are equally working with village heads in building solutions to ensure sustainability of the project.

And on the other hand we have notified relevant government agencies to avoid disruption.

In lieu of securing health of the world, we can't neglect the underserved citizen who are the vulnerable and we have quite a number of them scattered around Nigeria.

We hope to solve this problem by targeting women as our main focus to positively influence homes hence building resilient communities.

However considering the fact we can successfully affect a large number of community women at once through proper information dissemination we have decided to be gathering them together for interactive session and we will aid their understanding through audio-visual medias.

Delouse Medical Center has been in operation for the past 5 years promoting safe motherhood among Kwara Central Women, and we are proposing to extend our services to the other senitorial districts areas, i.e Kwara North and Kwara South

Our health solutions is first of its kind in Kwara state of Nigeria. Prior to this time government agencies covers for the rural setting which has not been effective. Since most women do not patronize their hospitals.

However private hospitals are profit driven and do not usually consider the low income class in their target.

Most NGOs on the other hand usually choose a particular program on a particular disease and do not consider the overall wellness of the citizens.

We have currently served about 10,000 women and we hope to get funding to reach 30,000 women in the next 1yr and 160,000 women in the next 5 years.

Since our Short term goal  is to sensitize Kwara state women on the dangers of patronizing non-medicals. Therefore the number of community women that are patronizing hospitals serve as indicator.

Our long term goal is to have communities with  significantly reduced maternal death. Our major indicator is the number of maternal deaths reported to National censor and population where every death among community women in Kwara state is reported. 

Full time 10

Part time 25

We have constituted a very strong team. Considering expertise and experience of every team members among which we have selected those  that volunteer as head of every departments.

1. Dr Elizabeth Johnson MD/CEO - head of medical team.

She is a medical doctor of over a decade and very passionate about maternal well-being.She has been working at community level for the past 5yrs, with alot of international recognition, hence she decided to give back to the community by launching a non governmental organization that focus mainly on women's health DRUWHI (Delouse Rural and Urban Women's Health Initiative.)

2. Mr Tayo Olawoye- Admin and secretary general.

 He's a well knowledgeable person when it comes to record keeping, taking minutes during meetings, writing and dispatching of letters etc.

3. Mr Idris Rufai -HOD finance/internal auditor.

He is a qualified and professional top Finance expert, with a vast knowledge of Finance and account for over 2 decades.

4. Pharm Ole - HOD research and development. He's a well experienced team player haven worked as public health analyst in the past.

5. Barr Kunle Ajayi -  HOD legal.

He handles all legal matters of the organization and with his experience as woman right activist till date, he's been fantastic at the field.

Other members are;

Pharma batunde-HOD corporate risk management and internal control. . 

Mr Segun Olarewaju- Logistics/protocol HOD. ,

.Mr Tosin Dada - HOD media and sounds

 Nurse Shola Ajayi- HOD welfare and hospitality.

Mr. Segun Babagbemi - HOD Branding and Marketing.

Our team selection;

We are not biased in our team selection. We believe strongly in the core value of every team member.

It's also worth noting that the principle and policies that governs every team member is very fair. For instance, the rules and regulations of the organization is the same for every team member no matter the hirachy. 

We ensure there's transparency in the day to day affairs of the organization. i.e every team member are well informed when it comes to the  organization.