Record to pregnant women in the picture

Bulging bellies as much as possible to get the picture. That is the purpose that the city of Breda on Saturday, September 4 itself has set. The action is the official kickoff for the world relay for mothers of 4 to 17 September by the Netherlands draws. The purpose of the relay, an initiative of Health Simavi - is mostly to Dutch a petition to sign on the Foreign Minister to urge the subject maternal mortality high on the international political agenda and not on this theme to cut .Simavi
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Of 20 t / m 22 September, government leaders gathered in New York to the progress of the Millennium, or the 'Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to discuss. MDG 5 (maternal mortality) is the farthest behind. Breda asked on this fun way to focus. From 12:00 on the Square will be the bellies of pregnant women as a record number of art are immortalized by photographer MeRy. Netherlands's most famous midwife Beatrice Smulders and Xandra Brood will thereby also be present.
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More than half a million women die needlessly in childbirth
This year it is exactly 10 years ago, world leaders promised that disease, hunger and poverty by 2015 far to bring back. With some of the MDGs are doing well, others lag far behind. Still more than 536,000 women die unnecessarily every year during pregnancy or childbirth care as inadequate. MDG 5 is therefore the last on the MDGs. And what needs to happen is Beatrijs Smulders: "Mothers make the world. If your mom supports you support the whole world. "
Change is possible by investing in sex education for young people, contraceptives for women who do not wish to become pregnant, training (traditional) midwives, better accessibility and affordability of hospitals for the poor, medication, for example stop bleeding and safe abortion if the pregnancy undesirable.
Join in and sign the petition
Relay for the world occurs in mothers Millennium Municipalities of September 14. In all these municipalities ask mayors and aldermen with a celebrity in a fun way to focus the maternal mortality problem. Zwolle organizes a parade maternity beds, plant a special world Tytsjerksteradiel mother tree and shares the mayor personally Meppel biscuit with mice in a hospital. On September 17, the petition presented in The Hague. For two weeks traveling the ambassadors of the relay crisscross the country along the 14 municipalities to draw attention to the petition. They will report via Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.
Relay for the World's Mothers on 4 September in Breda goes to the other churches Millennium Arnhem, Haarlem, Wassenaar, Meppel, Drenthe, Tytsjerksteradiel, Wageningen, Zaanstad, Heerhugowaard, Nieuwegein, Zwolle and Oss, The Hague. The relay is an initiative of Simavi in ​​collaboration with the National Postcode Lottery, VNG International (Millennium Municipalities), esta, MYBODY, Belvilla holiday homes and well water.
Read more about the program of the relay on www.simavi.nl / world why mothers and known and unknown Dutch are committed to reducing maternal mortality. Anyone can join by yourself to sign the petition. Xandra Bread: "A child needs his mother, a mother her child, so Simavi support."