First Embrace

Over 2 million babies die every year. That’s 4 every minute. 80% of these are low birth weight (LBW) newborns. We can change this. Kangaroo Mother Care increases a LBW newborn’s chance of survival by at least 33%. 

First Embrace will establish KMC wards within existing hospitals, training and equipping nurses to support mothers in practices proven in over 20 RCTs to save newborn lives: skin-to-skin contact, exclusive breastfeeding, and danger-sign identification.