The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is committed to working with you to empower and enable families and communities throughout the world to prevent maternal illness and death, and to protect, provide and participate in a healthier global society. Let us not forget the women who are presently suffering and who have died during the time you have taken to visit our website. We all must heed this call to action and promote zero tolerance for women dying in pregnancy or childbirth. Please join us!
What can you do?
Get involved. 1. Join the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.
2. Wear a white ribbon and tell others about the reproductive risks women face around the world.
3. Contact your member of Congress to urge them to increase investments in maternal health in the US and around the world.
4. Get involved with the global campaign A Promise to Mothers Lost: Healthy Pregnancy and Safe Childbirth for All.
Visit the Activities section to learn more about how you can get involved! How to join? To join the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, please complete and submit the membership form to the Alliance Secretariat.
Membership to the Alliance is free and available to all individuals and organizations with a commitment to the health and well-being of women and their families.
Benefits of joining the White Ribbon Alliance. Organizations and individuals benefit from sponsoring and participating in the White Ribbon Alliance because they:
- Are part of a global effort to make safe motherhood a more visible issue locally and internationally;
- Build partnerships with governments and NGOs;
- Develop a network of groups with common interests and goals;
- Have access to the technical and programmatic resources of the Alliance, including technical resource packages and a database of Alliance members, events and activities.
Also as a member of the Alliance, you will be included on the White Ribbon's e-mail distribution list, which reaches all national and international members. Special announcements, information on new technical resources and publications, events and updates on our member's activities are disseminated monthly on this e-mail distribution list. If you have any information that you would like to share with other Alliance members on the e-mail distribution list, please contact the WRA at info@whiteribbonalliance.org.
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