A safe start
In addition to offering Swedish-made organic infant formula & complementary foods, we as parents want, through our business, to contribute to creating better conditions for a safe start for everyone. We believe that a safe start for babies and their parents begins with a safe and secure birth.
Safe childbirth
When you give birth, you get an incredible reminder of how fragile life is. What you as a mother-to-be go through during childbirth becomes almost inconceivable to understand that women all over the world go through under all sorts of circumstances. In most cases under circumstances that are far from as safe and secure as they usually are in Sweden. The fact is that women in many parts of the world give birth with justified anxiety and fear for their own and/or their child's life. Obstetric care may not be within reach, and if it is available, it is substandard.
As parents and founders of Unna, we have decided to do what we can to improve the situation and fight for increased accessibility and quality of maternity care in developing countries. We want to do what we can to ensure that more people have a safe start.
With the initiative A Safe Start, we want to create a common cause to stand behind: the right to a safe and secure childbirth. Through Unna, we will actively work to raise the issue of the right to a safe and secure childbirth, and more directly, part of our sales revenue will go to Läkarmissionen's important work for safe childbirth.
Läkarmissionen operates internationally with aid and works to help people in need. They work with long-term poverty reduction in four areas: food security and livelihoods, health and well-being, education, and sanitation and water. In line with the UN's global goal for 2030 that no woman should have to die from her pregnancy, from preventable causes, Läkarmissionen works more specifically to ensure that all women have the right to a safe childbirth. This is done by improving and making the right care for childbirth available in various ways.
Every day, around 800 women die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth. It is estimated that 9 out of 10 deaths related to pregnancy/childbirth could be avoided with the right care. A majority of all births in the world take place at home, and it is in countries where the proportion of home births is highest that maternal mortality rates are also highest. Among the most vulnerable and affected are young women living in poverty, often in rural areas or who are refugees.
An important part of improving the chances of a mother (and baby) coping with childbirth is to inform about the importance of giving birth in a health facility. Once in hospital, it is important that the birth takes place surrounded by qualified health personnel, and that the necessary equipment and medicine are available. Through Läkarmissionen's work in both DR Congo and Tanzania, thousands of births have been assisted, midwives trained, and necessary equipment and vaccines distributed. Läkarmissionen has also enabled important aftercare for women, provided training in family planning, and helped set vaccination schedules for children before they leave the hospitals.
By supporting Läkarmissionen's important work to improve maternal and child care in vulnerable areas, we can together help give more people a safe start to parenthood.
Do you want to join in and get involved?
Do you want to get involved in making maternity care available to more people, and work to improve the care that is available? Or are you committed to the issue and want to collaborate? Do you have suggestions or ideas? We believe that joining forces is the best – so please contact us!
If you want to do a good deed in this matter now, you can donate a gift in the form of a safe delivery .