NICHE International

11/03/2026

🌍 Strengthening newborn care through training and partnership

NICHE International works alongside healthcare professionals in Cameroon, Uganda and Liberia, sharing practical training that supports better care for newborn babies in their first 28 days of life.

Our Neonatal Care Course (NCC) equips frontline health workers with essential newborn care skills, while the Generic Instructor Course (GIC) supports experienced clinicians to become trainers themselves. This approach helps build sustainable local teaching programmes so knowledge continues to grow and spread within each healthcare system.

Learn more about our work and partnerships:
🔗 https://nicheinternational.org.uk/front-page/our-projects/

06/03/2026

🏥 This is the maternity ward in a remote health centre in Mbam, Cameroon

Facilities are simple. Resources are limited.

👩🏾‍⚕️ Skilled local midwives and nurses make the difference.

Strengthening newborn care where it matters most 💛

Support sustainable training: https://nicheinternational.org.uk/want-to-donate/

04/03/2026

Last year, Grace, our lead Neonatal Care Course instructor in Cameroon, travelled for 36 hours to reach a remote health centre in Mbam. Access involved bus, motorbike and walking on foot — a reminder of how challenging healthcare delivery can be in rural areas.

Fifteen midwives and nurses took part in the training. They spoke candidly about the difficulties they face and were eager to strengthen their skills in newborn care.

Recently, Grace shared encouraging news: since the training in June, there has reportedly been only one neonatal death at that health centre — a baby with a severe congenital abnormality who could not have been saved.

Measuring long-term impact in low-resource settings is complex, and reliable mortality statistics are not always available. However, feedback like this suggests that sustained, locally led training may be contributing to meaningful change.

We remain committed to strengthening local instructor development and working towards clearer evidence of long-term outcomes.

If you would like to support sustainable newborn care training, please visit: https://nicheinternational.org.uk/want-to-donate/

📸 Training session: Midwives and nurses gathered in a simple training room during the Neonatal Care Course.

📸 Maternity ward: Basic ward space showing the conditions where newborn care is provided.

📸 The journey: Muddy, difficult road to reach the remote health centre where the training took place.

25/02/2026

🌍 Could you support sustainable newborn care training overseas?

NICHE International is recruiting experienced clinical instructors to join our volunteer faculty on upcoming training visits.

If you are passionate about teaching and global health, we would love to hear from you.

Find out more:
🔗 https://nicheinternational.org.uk/instructors/

Get in touch:
🔗 https://nicheinternational.org.uk/contact-us/

NICHE International – UK Charity 1174977

18/02/2026

📍 Varanasi Feedback

51 healthcare professionals completed our Neonatal Care Course in Varanasi — and confidence increased across all areas, especially newborn resuscitation.

Breastfeeding support remains an area where practical skills matter. In Uttar Pradesh, early initiation within the first hour is just 24%.

Training makes a difference — and local capacity building makes it sustainable.

📊 Confidence data shown below is taken from our latest Varanasi feedback blog.

Read more:
https://nicheinternational.org.uk/varanasi-feedback/

If you’d like to support sustainable newborn care training:
https://nicheinternational.org.uk/want-to-donate/

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11/02/2026

Sustainable learning, led locally 🌍
Our 10-step model supports neonatal training that continues without us 🤝👶🏾
More here: https://nicheinternational.org.uk/front-page/truly-sustainable-training/

Photos (left to right / top to bottom):

Small group discussion during a Neonatal Care Course (antibiotic prescribing).

Classroom teaching session as part of neonatal training.

Hands-on neonatal resuscitation skills practice, overseen by a local instructor (Zwedru, Liberia).

05/02/2026

Our supporters in action 💙

NICHE International is only possible because of the amazing people who support us — through fundraising, volunteering, donating, and cheering us on.

All NICHE trustees and instructors are volunteers, and every donation we receive goes directly towards delivering neonatal care training and leaving skills and equipment with local health teams.

If you’d like to support our work, you can find out more here:
👉 https://nicheinternational.org.uk/want-to-donate/

Thank you to everyone who supports NICHE and helps improve care for newborn babies.

04/02/2026

Reaching the local news in Varanasi for our courses

Publicity for the Varanasi courses Posted on February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 by niche_admin in Blog I am assured that this article in Hindi is positive about the courses being held here The local journalists recorded the demo simulation on day 2 – a baby starved of oxygen at birth who is resuscit...

30/01/2026

A report from course 1 by our team in Varanasi

https://nicheinternational.org.uk/varanasi-course-1/

24/01/2026

This photo was taken in 2019, at the end of a run of neonatal care courses in Liberia.

It shows Julia Thomson, a trustee of NICHE International, with Kola, an advanced neonatal nurse specialist who was leading newborn care training locally at the time.

For us, it captures what partnership really looks like: collaboration, trust and friendship, and the point at which local colleagues take the lead and make the work their own.

Sustainable change in newborn care only happens when skills, leadership and ownership sit locally. We’re proud to work alongside colleagues who share that commitment.

08/01/2026

Update from Uganda

Day 1, Course 2 in Kabale Posted on January 8, 2026January 8, 2026 by niche_admin in Blog The training team is back at work in south Uganda. This is the second of 2 courses that NICHE International volunteers are facilitating. Two Ugandan trainers are working alongside the 2 life support instructors...

05/03/2025

New manikins arrive in Cameroon - thanks to the British Medical Association for funding these

Manikins arriving in Cameroon – all over Cameroon! Posted on March 5, 2025March 5, 2025 by niche_admin in Blog The British Medical Association kindly funded more manikins and bag-valve-masks to go to Cameroon to help with on-going resuscitation training. Skills decay is a well known problem in hea...