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13/05/2026

I know that sadly, our charity is no more, but I just want to let you know that I have completed the book, covering the last 21yrs of my life with Life for African Mothers.
I am hoping that the book will be published at the end of June, around the actual anniversary of my seeing the PANORAMA episode which inspired me.
I will put the details on here in case anyone would like to buy it. All being well, I hope to donate to a maternal/womens health charity, which is run by people I know personally.
Thank you all for everything!
Angela ❤️

05/05/2026

Happy International Midwives Day to all my lovely midwife friends. ❤️

13/02/2026

It’s with heavy hearts but immense pride that we share this news: Life for African Mothers is closing our doors on 1st March 2026. 💔

For over 20 years, we’ve worked alongside incredible midwives, mothers, and communities across the globe. Together, we’ve achieved something extraordinary in Sub-Saharan Africa:
✨ 6 million tablets shipped
✨ Potentially 1 million women’s lives saved from PPH
✨ 1,000 African midwives trained

There are no simple reasons for this closure, yet many at the same time. What we know is this: the time has come for the countries we’ve supported to take forward this mission independently. That’s always been the goal—and we believe in their strength to continue this vital work. 🌍

Important information:
🚫 We are no longer accepting donations. All recurring donations will be automatically cancelled.
🏢 Our Sierra Leone office closed on 13th February—please direct all enquiries to the head office in Cardiff via [email protected].
📅 Our main organisation closes on 1st March 2026.
📧 For any enquiries, please email us at [email protected]
⏰ We’ll remain available for the next three months to complete all formal matters.
📊 At the end of the closure process, we will publish a final report detailing how any remaining donations will be used and our general report on closure.

To every single person who donated, volunteered, partnered with us, or simply believed in our mission—thank you. 🙏🏾 You didn’t just support a charity; you became part of a movement that saved mothers, protected babies, and transformed communities.

The work doesn’t end here. It lives on in every midwife we trained, every mother who survived, and every child who still has their mum. 💛
With gratitude and love,
The LFAM Team

14/01/2026

Times change. Hearts don’t. 💛
Behind every safe delivery—the hands and heart of a midwife.

For 20+ years, LFAM has stood beside these heroes in places where tools and resources fall short. Where preventable complications become tragedies. Where maternal deaths happen that shouldn’t.

We’re rewriting this story—training healthcare workers, delivering life-saving medication, fighting postpartum haemorrhage across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Because a mother’s life shouldn’t depend on where she gives birth. 🌍

The uniforms change. The mission doesn’t: safe childbirth for every African mother.
Will you join us? 🙏🏿 Link in bio.

31/12/2025

As we welcome 2026, we’re filled with hope and gratitude. 💚

This year, let’s continue making birth safer for mothers across the world—together. Every trained midwife, every dose of life-saving medication, every life saved brings us closer to a world where no mother dies during childbirth.

Here’s to new beginnings, stronger partnerships, and more lives transformed. ✨
Happy New Year from all of us at LFAM! 🎊

30/12/2025

This November, LFAM sent four UK midwives to Sierra Leone on a mission to train 50 local midwives, create Midwife Champions, and distribute life-saving tablets. Nicola, Head of Midwifery at James Paget Hospital, thought her decades of experience had prepared her. She was wrong. 💚

What she found were midwives working without running water, without basic supplies—yet providing care with a resilience and compassion that left her speechless. The training workshops opened with daily prayers. Break times became spaces of profound connection. And six extraordinary women emerged as Midwife Champions who will train others and lead change across Sierra Leone. ✨

«Midwifery has always been a voice for women’s health, justice, and social change—and that voice must continue to grow louder,» Nicola reflects.

Every mother deserves to survive childbirth. Help us continue training midwife heroes across Sub-Saharan Africa. 🌍

Link in bio to donate 💫

29/12/2025

The tiniest hands deserve the biggest chance. 🌸

This little flower weighs almost nothing. Neither do most of the surgical instruments we’ve just sent to midwives in Sierra Leone.
But together? They’re worth £1,100. And countless lives—both mothers and babies.

Resuscitation masks for newborns who need that first breath. Pinard horns to hear tiny heartbeats. Haemostatic forceps to stop a mother’s bleeding. Gestational wheels to track precious pregnancies. Each small tool is a lifeline for two lives. 💛

In Sierra Leone and other Sub-Saharan African countries, skilled midwives work tirelessly to bring babies safely into the world—but they lack the basic theatre instruments that could save both mother and child. We’re helping fill those gaps whenever possible, because even the tiniest things can make the difference between life and loss.

These delivery instruments mean midwives can practise safely, respond to emergencies, and bring families through childbirth with dignity, hope, and survival.

Help us send more life-saving gifts to those who need them most.
👉 Link in bio 🔗

25/12/2025

Instead of simply writing our milestones for 2025, we imagined them as a gallery of moments—twelve precious gifts presented as art objects on silver plates.

🎵 The Gift of Music – When music and singing filled Cardiff’s Temple of Peace, we raised £2,691—delivering on a promise that help was coming

📖 The Gift of Stories – Our team became storytellers for those whose voices often go unheard, from Freetown to Cardiff

🗣️ The Gift of Voice – We welcomed distinguished Patron Mpho Tutu van Furth, whose influential voice opened new doors for advocacy and support

💝 The Gift of Hearts – Hannah survived PPH in the UK and raised £2,730. Another supporter, remembering her grandmother’s loss in 1970s Birmingham, donated: “If I can help any other mothers, then I am happy to do it”

🤝 The Gift of Partnership – TOHC delivered 1.5 million health supplements to pregnant mothers, and Waste 2 Wonder supplied essential furniture to schools and clinics in Sierra Leone

📦 The Gift of Care – Our first 100 maternity boxes became lifelines in small packages, reaching mothers in the most remote communities

📚 The Gift of Knowledge – Our team travelled to Sierra Leone to train 50 midwives, creating six champion trainers who will multiply their impact for years to come

💊 The Gift of Life – 200,000 misoprostol tablets delivered means thousands of mothers will hold their babies instead of becoming another tragic number

👶🏾 The Gift of Births – Real mothers experienced safer deliveries and held healthier babies in their arms—moments of joy made possible by every effort that came before

🏆 The Gift of Recognition – Our dedicated Sierra Leone team received the prestigious 2025 Humanitarian Service Awards for their tireless commitment on the ground

🌟 The Gift of Legacy – We marked our 20th anniversary. 6 million tablets. One million potential lives saved

💗 The Gift of Compassion – Heartfelt donations from individuals across the UK, generous grants from Guernsey Overseas Aid—all carried the same message: you matter, your baby matters, your life matters

Thank you for being the heart of LFAM.

24/12/2025

This Christmas, whilst families gather in warmth, midwives across the world hold tiny hands taking their first breath. That precious moment—a mother’s relief, a baby’s cry, a life beginning—is the gift we’re all fighting for. 💝

Every mother deserves to hold her child. Every baby deserves their first Christmas. This season, your generosity has rewritten the story for countless mothers in Sub-Saharan Africa, and we are profoundly grateful for each one of you.
Because the greatest gift isn’t wrapped in paper—it’s wrapped in a mother’s arms. 🎄✨

Wishing you a warm and joyful Christmas filled with love, laughter, and all the people who matter most.

23/12/2025

We’ve all been there. 🙈
It’s last-minute, and you need something meaningful—fast.

LFAM digital gift certificates arrive straight to the recipient’s inbox and make your loved one feel truly special. Here’s how it works: you make a donation in their honour, and they receive a beautiful certificate showing that mothers in sub-Saharan Africa are receiving life-saving Misoprostol tablets because of them. This medication protects mothers during childbirth from postpartum haemorrhage, the leading cause of maternal death in Africa.

There’s nothing for them to spend or redeem—just the deep satisfaction of knowing that in their name, women are being protected and babies get to grow up with their mothers. Just £10 provides Misoprostol for 70 mothers. You can choose any amount. 💚

For someone who has everything? This means everything.

Instant. Impactful. Impossibly thoughtful. ✨
Order now → Link in bio

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Temple Of Peace, King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff
CF103AP

Telephone

+447984786103

Website

http://lifeforafricanmothers.org/

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