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Provide affordable healthcare for pregnant women in underserved communities in Zambia by equipping low-resource areas with the materials and capacity to create safe, sterile spaces for birth.
organization overview
Safe Motherhood Alliance develops and distributes innovative, climate-smart healthcare products that meet the unique needs of pregnant women living in low-resource settings and rural areas. Safe births in Sub-Saharan Africa are a challenge, and the Safe Motherhood Alliance understands that anxiety over childbirth can often lead to using unsafe practices. Its work focuses on removing anxiety from the birth process and rebuilding trust between communities and clinics. Safe Motherhood Alliance’s vision is to advance women’s access to healthcare by engaging spheres of influence that affect their choices, so they can deliver a healthier and wealthier world, passed on for generations.
Personal Bio
Muzalema Mwanza is the founder and CEO of Safe Motherhood Alliance, a social enterprise addressing maternal and newborn health across sub-Saharan Africa. Her work focuses on providing baby delivery kits and digital health tools to expectant mothers and frontline birth attendants in underserved communities.
Her journey began with a deeply personal experience—being asked to provide her own materials during childbirth at a public hospital, that moment revealed the stark reality facing millions of women and became the catalyst for her mission to make safe childbirth a universal right, not a privilege. With her background in engineering, she is bridging systemic gaps in maternal care as her work draws on deep community engagement and a passion for health equity, blending innovation with local solutions to empower women at the last mile. Under her leadership, she has reached thousands of women and frontline health workers.
She is an Ashoka Fellow, a Schwab Foundation Award Social Innovator, her work has been featured on the BBC and recognized by the World Economic Forum, UNICEF, and other global health institutions.
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