In collaboration with Bangladesh's goal to train midwives, we strategically recruit as students young girls from areas where maternal mortality rates are high to participate in the three-year Community-based Midwifery Diploma Programme at Hope Foundation. This "hub and spoke" program began in 2013 and it started funded by the British Department for International Development.
Our duty as the "spoke" institution is to deploy graduates into the rural villages of Cox's Bazar armed with the expertise to serve as the epicenters of maternal health in their communities while empowering young girls through education.
As midwives are usually the first line of defense in rural communities, we Hope to continue training these health care professionals for as long as possible with the financial support of generous donors to make the program accessible to all, regardless of their religious, social, or economic background.