Connect Global Maternity Home Ministry UPDATE:
Together we have Made this Home a Reality.
Connect Global Maternity Home Staff
The Maternity Home was opened on September 11, 2019. Our team has been on full-time rotation providing 24/7 care for the moms of La Ceiba. On July 1, 2021, we reached the milestone of serving 1000 mothers.
It is great to see the community jump in and serve and give towards this ministry.
It is our great joy to be able to see this beautiful work come into existence and to manage it daily. God has blessed us and we have accomplished so much together with people who truly care about and love their neighbors.
Please consider making a monthly donation to help us maintain and operate this ministry to these precious mothers.
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MATERNITY HOME Ministry Overview
During our extensive work in La Ceiba, we at Connect Global observed a very difficult challenge facing new and expecting mothers. We diligently learned as much as we could about this problem and more importantly devised a plan to provide a solution.
Thank You for taking the time to learn about the Maternity Home Ministry in Honduras.
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Connect Global Maternity Home at the Regional Hospital in La ceiba, Atlantida, Honduras
The Regional Hospital of Atlantida in the city of La Ceiba serves an area of over 700k people. With only 200 beds, the staff serves over 76k patients each year. Around 5500 of these patients are new baby deliveries.
With such a great demand placed on their facilities mothers at times had to endure undignified and unsafe conditions while in recovery and while their newborns were in the NICU
New and Expectant Mothers who were displaced while they waited for beds to open up before delivery, were given no room to recover post delivery.
Moms historically were placed outside the maternity wing before and after delivery to save beds for women only during the actual delivery process. Women would sleep on makeshift pallets on the floors or benches that line the open air hallways outside the delivery wing.
This of course is uncomfortable, dangerous, and would leave the moms susceptible to germs, and outdoor afflictions such as Zika, and Malaria.
Now they have a safe and clean place to recover and receive care from a knowledgeable and compassionate team operated by Connect Global.
“Some problems only exist because no one has stepped up to address the issue.
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Our Proposal
Some problems only exist because no one has stepped up to address the issue.
Connect Global chose to address the issue of moms having to sleep on the floor during their hospital stay while giving birth and came up with a solution. We proposed the building of a brand new Maternity Home for these mothers. This home opened open September 11 and added 24 beds, a kitchen and bathroom facilities for moms only, as a place for them to recover while their children receive care in the NICU. This facility is being run by Connect Global staff and is in part supported by local volunteers and supporters to provide a safe and welcoming facility for new moms as well as provide a very special opportunity to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with these moms and their new born children.
This is a home that compassionately restores dignity, safety, and peace of mind where it is needed most.
Our Partnerships
Here at Connect Global we have intentionally deepened our relationships and partnerships in Honduras over the years. We are working to create a sustainable solution for the operations of this Maternity Home Program at the Hospital for these mothers. We are partnering with the hospital, local business owners and local churches to ensure the best ongoing care in this home. Our plan is to share the operational cost responsibilities with these local partners as well as others who see the value in caring for these moms. Connect Global will continue to provide oversight and management of the Home to ensure fiscal responsibility and stewardship.
Yes, it will take a lot of work, time, and money but these moms, and the future sons and daughters of Honduras are worth it.
If we are to see massive positive change come to Honduras, and to see Honduras increasingly become a more giving country, we need to continue investing compassionatly into the nation's most vulnerable citizens.
“Thank You for helping Us Make this Maternity Home Ministry a reality ”
The Maternity Home ministry provides Connect Global access to serve both moms and newborns with great care and dignity while sharing the good news of Jesus with our employees, hospital staff and each new mom that we meet.