Through these projects Lifeline Community Hub members, Welbodi Partnership data collectors, under CRIBS (Capacity Research Innovation Building maternity Systems), and healthcare workers continue to collaborate in saving the lives of pregnant women and babies.
With funding support from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), over 500 pregnant women have been directly engaged and benefited from these interventions and, together with its partners, LNP remains committed to serving marginalised communities across Sierra Leone.
Prince T Williams, Executive Director of LNP, and Mangenda Kamara, 2YL Cofounder & In-Country Manager, were invited as expert panellists in the NIHR Global Health Research Shared Learning Event: Equitable Partnerships, and spoke passionately about the importance of working with communities, as partners, to both identify and co-create solutions for the issues which most affect them.
On October 25th the Executive Director of Lifeline, Prince Tommy Williams, received a phone call from Ms Mariatu Duraman, the blood bank lead at the Koidu Government Hospital, Kono District, saying, “Mr. Prince, the President of Sierra Leone has lunched the Maternal Centre of Excellence here in Kono, and would you come and help us strengthen the collection of blood, using your community voluntary blood donation scheme. The work here is big, I would want to come to town for us to talk about it, may God provide big funding for Lifeline.”