Tenki for Born

Tenki for Born We provide self-sustaining resources to improve health and education of mothers and children in Sierra Leone

🌱This week, we launched something meaningful within some Villages in the Bo District provinces. Strengthen Our Sierra Le...
05/21/2026

🌱This week, we launched something meaningful within some Villages in the Bo District provinces. Strengthen Our Sierra Leoneans (SOS) Community Development Program, a new pilot under Tenki.

SOS was created with one purpose: to understand families real needs and build support that is fair, ethical, and rooted in dignity. The official program will support vulnerable families through home improvement, essential food, clothing, and one‑time financial assistance.

Before anything can begin, we must listen. That’s why our first step is a **needs assessment** — walking from home to home, hearing people’s stories, and learning what life truly looks like for the families we hope to serve.

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🌍 Day 1 & Day 2 — Communities opening their doors.
•Gbaiima & Dodo

Over the first two days, our ambassadors moved through Gbaiima and Dodo with purpose. Families welcomed them wholeheartedly. Every conversation reminded us that people don’t just need help — they need to be seen and heard.

We gathered information about home safety, and daily challenges. And we made sure every family understood what the program entails and that the full SOS program is anticipated to begin next year, with fair and ethical selection based on clear criteria. No promises. No pressure. Just transparency.

Fortunately, we were able to distribute a few clothing and shoe items to the villages as a mere thank you.

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❤️ **Why This Matters**

In just two days, we witnessed trust growing — slowly and naturally. When people feel heard, they open up. When they open up, real change becomes possible.

This is only the beginning, but it already feels like the start of something powerful. Together, we will continue to strengthen our Sierra Leoneans one home, one family, one village at a time.

05/20/2026

Over the weekend, a life was saved.

Yesterday, we saw our training being cascaded at the facilities of our top performers, and one of them shared that they saved a life, and they were so grateful they had our training on postpartum hemorrhage. They were able to implement the treatment bundle and we saw mother who lived.

Though she was weak, she laid there, alive with her baby. That’s enough to celebrate.

Tenki 🙏🏾💕

05/18/2026

We stand on quality not quantity. We don’t just want to show up and talk, we ensure our participants actually learn. And if they walk away with one of our certificates, it means they learned new skills to help reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Sierra Leone, and they’re confident enough to cascade that knowledge down to the colleagues in their facilities.

We work with our partners to provide sustainable impacts and capacity building that makes a difference.

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05/16/2026

The midwives of Sierra Leone really are superwomen!

We concluded the conference with 39 new champions of managing postpartum hemorrhage and neonatal care, all provided with action plans for their facilities.

Ten of them were identified as practice coordinators and provided with the tools to conduct low-dose high frequency trainings in their facilities, and 3 of them are now designated as fully qualified trainers in their communities with imbedded training-of-trainers system.

Thank you to our partners Healey International Relief Foundation and Helping Children Worldwide for the time, effort and resources you put in this conference every year to make it a success. And a huge thank you to Rotary International for the significant contribution to make this conference possible.

It takes a village.

Tenki tenki 🙏🏾💕

05/15/2026

Starting the day off right.

This is how School of Midwifery Bo starts their day every morning, singing with heart and appreciation.

What a Wonderful God.

Tenki 🙏🏾💕

05/15/2026

Day 4

Almost done!

Today there were lots of simulations and testing done to determine proficiency in lifesaving skills for the mother and baby. Almost everyone passed with a few retest tomorrow for those that are still learning and working to understand/incorporate new skills.

Here is a simple demonstration of continuous skin-to-skin care, sometimes referred to as kangaroo mother care, where the mother is encouraged to be skin to skin with the baby for 24hrs or more, taking breaks only for diaper changes or when she needs to relieve herself m. It’s used to help with temperature regulation and prevent hypothermia in preterm and low birthweight newborns.

What’s beautiful about this method is that not only the mother can do it but the father or any companion can help as well, especially if the mother is recovering or has medical complications that require care. An effective means to help improve survival in those first few days of life.

It really does take a village.

Tenki 🙏🏾💕

05/14/2026

Day 3
On the baby side, we finished Essential Newborn Care 1 (ENC 1) where we focused on ventilation in the first minutes of life and turned to ENC 2 which focuses on assessment and prevention in the 60-90min time period after birth.

And on the maternal side, we moved on from early detection and prevention of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) to treatment using the PPH bundle.

In our conference we’re intentional about keeping it interactive and reinforcing hands on education with skills acquisition.

Though there has been tremendous progress, Sierra Leone still ranks as one of the top 5 countries for infant mortality rate and top 20 countries for maternal mortality. We still have a long way to go, and we’re getting there slowly but surely.

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05/13/2026

Day 2 is complete!

One of our favorite parts of this conference are the morning sessions centered around patient and provider mental health.

This morning Eliana with Healey International Relief Foundation talked about self-care and burnout, which really resonated with the participants. She introduced techniques such as belly breathing and body scans, and discussed the importance of asking for help.

The weight of caring for pregnant women in Sierra Leone is beyond heavy. Focusing on the wellbeing of frontline workers needs to be a priority, so we can help lighten the load.

It takes a village.

Tenki 🙏🏾💕

Day 1 is done 🙌🏾💕👏🏾💕👏🏾This is our 4th Maternal and Child Health Training Conference with Helping Children Worldwide and ...
05/11/2026

Day 1 is done 🙌🏾💕👏🏾💕👏🏾

This is our 4th Maternal and Child Health Training Conference with Helping Children Worldwide and Healey International Relief Foundation, and we’re back in Bo thanks to funding from Rotary International!

We’ve got a wonderful new crew of trainers from Canada to work with and the number of local national trainers is steadily increasing, which is so awesome.

The Bo District Medical Officer gave a nice introduction about the MoH’s 300 days of activism initiative to reach zero preventable maternal deaths, zero preventable child deaths and zero “zero-dose” children. He also commended us for our efforts and the QUALITY of our training, which is why we were invited back!

With 38 midwives, nurses and maternal and child health aides to train, we hit the ground running to learn, and there was no lack of enthusiasm! It’s always great to work with this team of dedicated frontline workers and this is only the beginning.

Looking forward to four more productive days ahead!

Tenki tenki 🙏🏾💕

01/26/2026

We trained over 60 incredible midwives last week in Tonkolili district how to prevent neonatal deaths and prevent, diagnose and treat postpartum hemorrhage per curriculum developed by WHO and Jhpiego
This song is commonly sung by midwives in Sierra Leone. “We go for stop die na Salone” 🇸🇱
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01/24/2026

And our 3rd annual Maternal and Child Health Conference is complete!

We were able to train over 60 midwives and nurses in Helping Mothers Survive and Essential Newborn Care!

We also provided 12 of our top performers with training equipment to optimize their low-dose high frequency training sessions in their facilities because skills sustainment is necessary to achieve real change on the ground

We’ll be performing site visits next week to help our champions/practice coordinators cascade and integrate what they learned into the facilities, and demonstrate how this can be done during the clinical day in a non-disruptive manner.

These midwives are committed to safe deliveries and decreasing maternal and neonatal deaths.

And so they sang:

“No no no belli uman no for die
(No, no, no pregnant women shouldn’t not die)

When e go for born we say e no for die
(when she goes to give birth, we say she shouldn’t die)

Na for tap die na Salone, ay ya
(we should stop death in Sierra Leone)

We cam for tap die na Salone”
(we’ve come to stop death in Sierra Leone)

We’re truly honored to work with them, and we’re in it for the long haul.

It takes a village.

Tenki 🙏🏾💕

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