Cut off from the rest of the world – no salvation
Winter in the high mountains, 2014: due to the persistent bad weather in Mugu, a young woman paid a very high price [...]
From woman to woman: our midwives help directly
Behind these figures there is a lot of help: 15 birth centres, 47 employees, 30 of them midwives, 15 assistants and 2 health officers. All these women are from Mugu and all of them are there in Mugu for women, children and families [...]
Family planning is not magic
Our midwives ask women about contraception. The reactions are almost always the same: the women cannot believe at first that it is in their hands whether they want to get pregnant or not [...].
Why a birth house in the mountains is vital
By Wolfgang Langenkamp, who donated the Jima Birthplace in Mugu and twice made the adventurous and arduous journey to Mugu himself, at the start of construction and at the inauguration [...]
So that you get bigger and stronger – our nutritional advice
Balanced nutrition for babies and toddlers is important to us. Due to poverty and hard physical labor, many mothers do not have enough breast milk for their babies [...]
The 1000th Back to Life baby is here!
Born on the Nepalese Mother's Day 2020 in our birthplace Nakharji. From our teammate [...]
Proximity creates security – our baby massage courses
The baby massage is said to have many positive properties: In the cool season it is said to warm, the blood circulation is stimulated, also the muscle formation is promoted [...]
How to wash properly has to be learned – our baby bath training
Back to Life supports the mothers with various training courses so that they can care for the newborns in the best possible way. This includes "baby bath training" developed by our midwives for new mothers [...].
Saving lives – twice as much!
Nirmala, our midwife in the house where Gamtha was born, speaks urgently to the mother-to-be. "Sharmila, you are too weak for this exhausting twin birth. The babies are not conveniently located, there could be complications [...]
6x TWINS
Twin births are always special. For midwives, this means providing close-meshed obstetric care to detect any complications early enough to guide women through a safe birth [...].
Birthcenters for Mugu Nepal
Stella Deetjen tells the story of Sushila, who made building birth centres Back to Life's core mission. Without this encounter we would probably not have built our 15 birth centres.
