Bringing hope to women {#GiveHopeWithCigna}
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My husband has told me the story of a laborer in his grandma’s fields, heavily pregnant, who asked to take a little extra time off for her lunch break. His grandma gave her permission to come back later than usual and when she did, she returned looking quite fatigued. My husband remembers her face clearly and recollects the shocked reaction his grandma had when the laborer casually apologized for the delay saying she had to stay a little longer than expected because it took a while to deliver the baby in her womb. His grandma naturally sent her back home with a little extra money and asked her to stay to care for her newborn and rest her body for a few days.
The story while hard to digest for many of us, is a way of life for many women who need to work to support their families, especially in situations where that income lost for an hour could mean the loss of a meal for the children at home.
Bringing hope to women {#GiveHopeWithCigna}
To help women in places around the world that need all the help they can get, the Cigna Foundation has partnered with SamaHope to do just that…
bring hope, wellness, health and a change in what once may have been the spiral downwards.
By providing SamaHope with the World of Difference grant this year, Cigna Foundation is able to to help train doctors and nurses in India provide the required treatment and surgery for those in need.
SamaHope’s 10,000 Lives campaign for 2015 is on a mission to protect women in need of a maternal health intervention and provide birth kits to 5000 mothers and 5000 babies to meet that goal.
With less than three months left in the year, they’re halfway to their goal.
Would you help bring hope to a mother in need with your donation of $5?
$5 can buy a meal at a local fast food restaurant or perhaps even 2 coffees. Would you consider eating at home one evening this month and/or making your own coffee, so as to save that $5 for a need so much greater than that of a food splurge?
Your $5 donation can fund a birth kit that provides sterile tools to a skilled birth attendant to facilitate a safe birth and protect two lives…
that of the mother and the baby.
Doesn’t that make giving up a small treat all the more worth it?
Would you donate your $5 gift right now?
Thank you!
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