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![Nurses taking part in a birth simulation training at Nacala Porto Hospital come together for a group session.](/sites/default/files/2023-05/feature-mother-newborns-1200X700%20-%20Heyab%20M.%20Ogbasion.jpg)
How to save mothers and newborns from preventable deaths
Mothers and newborns are dying from preventable causes every day in countries around the world. In Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Uganda, working with health care providers, communities and at the national level, FHI 360 puts maternal and newborn health services within reach for mothers and babies. FHI 360 operates at all levels of health systems, in collaboration with local partners and ministries of health, to create lasting changes that will help mothers and babies live full and healthy lives. Learn more.
![Nurse Radha Thapa demonstrates a new heat lamp at the Patariya's birthing center, an example of the health post's improvements made as a result of the CS:MAP activity.](/sites/default/files/2023-04/Nepal%20GGB%20story%20-%20Heyab%20M.%20Ogbasion.jpg)
Tranformation starts with the right tools
FHI 360’s Good Governance Barometer (GGB) is a scoring system that helps a community get a clear picture of where they are and what needs to improve to meet their goals. In Nepal’s rural municipality, Suddhodhan, the community's leadership used the GGB tool to improve their health facility (Patariya Health post) to address the community’s needs and make services accessible to more diverse groups. Learn more.
![Anna used to be a sex worker in Pattaya City, Thailand. She is now an ambassador for SWING Pattaya, a leading community health center, where she does community outreach to encourage people to seek HIV services, including testing, prevention and treatment.](/sites/default/files/2023-03/AKE01573%20-%20Heyab%20M.%20Ogbasion.jpg)
Connecting sex workers in Thailand to HIV care
Reaching key populations is critical to reduce HIV transmission and achieve epidemic control. Key populations include sex workers, transgender people and men who have sex with men. FHI 360 and long-standing partner SWING Pattaya, in Thailand, use outreach counselors to help connect key populations to HIV testing, prevention and treatment. View the photo story.
![Nursing students learn through hands-on training and skills development at the Instituto Técnico Superior Comunitario (ITSC) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Through the Advance program (known locally as “Avanza”), FHI 360 partners with technical education programs like ITSC to help marginalized young people in the Dominican Republic gain employment in growing sectors of the country’s economy.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/blog-avanza-soft-skills-850X567%20-%20Heyab%20M.%20Ogbasion.jpg)
High-growth careers require soft skills, too
The Dominican Republic has one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America, yet its employers are struggling to find qualified applicants for jobs such as software development and nursing. FHI 360’s Advance LAC Regional Workforce Development Program (known locally as “Avanza,” meaning “get going” in Spanish) aims to help marginalized young people in the Dominican Republic gain employment in growing sectors of the economy. Learn more.
![Sujata Kumari Singh, who with her husband co-owns a pharmacy in Nepal that provides family planning services.](/sites/default/files/2022-12/feature-nepal-sujata-portrait%20-%20Heyab%20M.%20Ogbasion.jpg)
From sales to service: One woman's journey as a family planning champion
Sujata Kumari Singh developed her business skills and knowledge of voluntary family planning, including adolescent sexual and reproductive health, through trainings provided by FHI 360's MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery Nepal project. Now, Singh is using her role at her family's pharmacy and her newfound contraception expertise to bring young people the information they need. Learn more.
![A quality education changes lives and allows young people to build futures that are meaningful to them, their families and their communities.](/sites/default/files/2022-11/FHI360_PasserellesMedinaGounass_final_daydream_1500x986%20-%20Heyab%20M.%20Ogbasion.jpg)
Education opens gateways for young people in Senegal
In close partnership with the traditional Islamic community of Medina Gounass and its religious leaders, FHI 360’s U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Passerelles team works to build gateways to high-quality, relevant education for girls and other young learners in Senegal. The partnership works with “daaras” (Quranic schools), or informal schools, to formalize education and provide specialized training to teachers, teacher coaches and inspectors, with the goal of creating safer and engaging learning environments that motivate students to advance in their studies. Learn more.
![Amada Jimenez harvests berries as a farm worker in California — a job that is fast-paced and physically demanding. Berries are so delicate that each one must be hand-picked, and Jimenez’s paycheck is determined in part by how many boxes she can fill.](/sites/default/files/2022-09/feature-migrant-head-start-567X532%20-%20Heyab%20M.%20Ogbasion%20editted.jpg)
Beyond early childhood education
FHI 360, through its local Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs, is working to provide the children of migrant farmworkers with high-quality, affordable, and reliable early childhood education. Explore this photo story to learn how MSHS is making a difference in the lives of migrant farmworkers.
![Afghan Nutrition Workshop_FHI 360](/sites/default/files/2022-09/4-FHI360-AfghanNutritionWorkshop-complete-workshop-development-1000x604%20-%20Heyab%20M.%20Ogbasion.jpg)
Afghanistan's food crisis through the eyes of a mother
To combat malnutrition, FHI 360 is working with Afghan NGOs to train front-line health and humanitarian workers to deliver emergency nutrition services to pregnant and lactating women and their infants. So far, FHI 360 and its partners have trained more than 100 people in five workshops, with more workshops scheduled. Learn more.
![FHI 360 and partners provide stigma-free mental health care](/sites/default/files/2022-09/feature-virtual-safe-spaces-800X533%20-%20Heyab%20M.%20Ogbasion.png)
Creating virtual safe spaces for people affected by HIV
For Fouzia Farid-Mabrouki, a Moroccan psychologist, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown her that virtual therapy works. And it helps people feel safe—“especially those who want to be anonymous.” Since September 2021, FHI 360 has partnered with local psychologists to provide stigma-free mental health care to those living with HIV—including members of the LGBTQ+ community—in the MENA region through the MENA Moves project. Learn more.
![More than 15 years after leaving school, Omar completed a USAID business development course and has received appliances, including a stove and a rice cooker, to help him expand his cooking and catering business. Photo by TM Design, Inc.](/sites/default/files/2022-06/FHI360_OmarJohnsonStory_Inset2_final%20-%20Christy%20Delafield.jpg)
Finding hope in the kitchen
The outlook for Omar’s future was grim, as it is for many Jamaicans recruited at a young age into lives of crime and violence. Then he met Latoya and was introduced to FHI 360 and USAID's Local Partner Development project, where he found the support he needed to make a change. More information.