Alistair and Julia are off to Liberia at the crack of dawn tomorrow to facilitate 2 Newborn Care Courses in CH Rennie hospital alongside a local neonatal nurse practitioner and some midwifery interns. My understanding is that an intern is a trained midwife who is then given extended roles which would overlap with those of an obstetrician in well resourced countries like the UK. But we’ll find out more when we’re there and have met the local faculty.

This trip is in collaboration with the charity, Maternal and Child Health Advocacy International (www.mcai.org) who originally designed the Newborn Care Course and under whose umbrella we taught the course in Cameroon until 2016.

Newborn, Infant and Child Health Education (NICHE) International is a small charity with 6 trustees, 3 of whom are also  Newborn Care Course instructors.  Our mission is elsewhere on the website but basically we travel to low resource countries of the world to facilitate courses on care of the newborn infant in the first 28 days of life and train local instructors.

The charity was set up in autumn 2017.  In 2018 we led a big group of 7 instructors to Cameroon in March and 2 of us are about to set out to Liberia to deliver our first NCC there.

Seb is our webmaster and says we must write blog posts while overseas to let the world know what the charity is up to.  Please do leave a comment if you want to ask us any questions!

Julia and Alistair