Combatting maternal and infant mortality in Togo

Fighting Malnutrition 

 
Malnutrition is also another issue that Baby Moto is there to help address. Jacques was 3 months old when his mother, Ahoefa, met staff from SOS Children’s Villages. His severe malnutrition had put his life at risk. “The doctors told me to pray for my son to survive because there was not much else, they could do to save him,” says Ahoefa. “The Baby Moto’s team took the situation in hand, providing Jacques with the medical support, medications and food supplies he urgently needed. My son would have died if the program did not exist.”
Jacques survived and he is now a healthy 6-month-old boy, with a cheeky smile on his face. 

Along with medical care, Baby Moto gives nutrition training to mothers to guide them in the preparation of healthy and nutritious meals for their children, especially newborns. “I have learnt to make an enriched flour - by mixing moringa, soja, maize and sugar - that is very filling, and my child loves it,” says Ahoefa.  

 
This phase of the Baby Moto program aims to provide healthcare to over 700 children, 600 pregnant women, and 900 breastfeeding mothers between 2020-2024. The ambitious future of this project is looking to expand the training and education, delivering family planning, active fatherhood, and sexual and reproductive health sessions.