The aim of this project is to improve maternal and child emotional, physical, mental and social well-being among single women/girls with crisis pregnancies in Cambodia. MHO believe that lack of medical care should not be a barrier to a single woman who wants to keep her baby. Offering this basic maternal service is a practical way MHO can show single women that they are valued despite what society may say about them.
MHO will implement the proposed activities using the following approaches to achieve its goal:
• Service delivery
In addition to crisis pregnancy counselling, MHO’s team will provide access to medical and health support services and attention needed during their pregnancy, delivery, and post-natal. MHO’s team will also provide maternal education, including practical knowledge on maternal and child care, breastfeeding, nutrition for both mothers and babies, contraception use, and many others.
Our counsellors and social workers will continue to monitor, provide counselling, emotional support, and timely information on the women's choices and other social services support to them well after their babies are born.
• Livelihood
MHO provides access to vocational skills training, job placement opportunities, and start-up resources so that the women are job-ready, can find work, or embark on a business that will make them financially secure and can raise their children.
• Mediation, advocacy and awareness-raising
MHO works to reunite families so that they can return to their communities, and hold community discussions on rights and gender literacy linking to sexual reproductive health services and care, in collaboration with partners and local authorities. MHO also have partnerships with local authorities (sangkat or commune level) and the commune committee for women and children that monitors any instances of abuse to women and children in the village level and endorses cases relevant to MHO and other NGOs working in the area.
