Eleanor Goldberg has written an exciting article as Impact Editor for The Huffington Post about a new commitment from two major companies to provide 100 million women with mobile technology over the next five years!
Tata Communications and MasterCard announced their plan to join up in order to bring the technology to women in need at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative. They’re launching the program in India, Nigeria, Indonesia and Guatemala, with the goal of initially targeting 25,000 women [part of a larger vision to ultimately reach 100 million women].
Best of all, Eleanor Goldberg highlights Zero Mothers Die as one of the like-minded organizations that believes in the potential of mobile phones for empowering women, which has led to our development of a mobile health initiative to deploy technology solutions directly to pregnant women in developing countries to help them gain access to critical healthy pregnancy and childbirth information.
Pregnant women and new mothers who live in rural areas often face greater health risks because they lack access to medical clinics.
To ensure that pregnant women and new moms are armed with the information they need to protect themselves and their babies, a number of groups have developed mobile platforms that can reach women everywhere and save as many as 800 women a day who die from preventable conditions, Reuters reported in 2013.
One such group is Zero Mothers Die, a mobile program that provides critical maternal, newborn and child health information.
We highly recommend reading the full article directly on Huffington Post Impact and let us know in the comments what you think about the potential of this initiative!
100 Million Women In Developing Countries To Receive Free Cell Phones | Huffington Post Impact
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100 Million Women In Developing Countries To Receive Free Cell Phones | Huffington Post Impact
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