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SafeHands for Mothers’ vision is a world where no woman dies in pregnancy and childbirth. They work to achieve this through the production of films; documentaries that raise awareness of important issues such as female genital mutilation, obstetric fistula, child marriage, family planning and HIV/AIDS, and films which educate and inspire frontline health workers, women and their communities. These films are fundamental in disseminating vital health messages visually in countries with high rates of illiteracy. They can be shown in remote and isolated areas, where there is little or no electricity, through SafeHands for Mothers’ innovative solar-powered media players, carried in backpacks and weighing less than 5 kgs. SafeHands for Mothers has so far reached an audience of one million across sub-Saharan Africa.

A box-style solar-powered media player showing a film on nutrition, watched by people attending a clinic in southern Ethiopia.

Mother attending a ‘well baby’ clinic in Gombat, Amhara, Ethiopia.

Ten-year-old Wube-Enat on her wedding day when she married Abebe, aged 19, in an Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Amhara, Ethiopia.  Abebe is studying to be a deacon within the Church and as such cannot have sex with her until she is at least 15 years old.