By Elizabeth Appleyard | Program Administrator
AIL staff continue with their in depth and effective workshop programs. Some of the most popular workshops are the Reproductive Health Workshops (RH) and the Expectant Mother Workshops (EM). Even well educated women find they do not know enough about their own reproductive system and the processes that occur in pregnancy and childbirth.
Here is one participant’s comments: “My name is Anita and I strongly suggest that AIL hold such workshops for all Afghan women in order to decrease the rate of child and maternal death. I am a university student and the topics shocked me. It is so vital for every woman to attend such workshops and learn about reproductive health. I am going to transfer what I learned in this workshop to every Afghan women I see from now on. I am going to stop mothers’ deaths. I thank AIL.”
This sort of lack of knowledge can be dangerous for women. Too many women and babies die or are injured during childbirth in Afghanistan.
So far in 2014, 65 women have attended RH workshops and 100 attended EM workshops. In addition, tens of thousands of women have been given reproductive health education through the AIL clinics and Community Health Workers posts. This information is spread by the women to other members of their families, their friends and neighbors, so knowledge is spread and changes in attitude and behavior follow.
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