About us
Linda Mtoto uses technology to impact on children's health and reduce on maternal and infant mortality in Kenya.
Linda Mtoto enables women receive free health-related messages via mobile technology aimed at improving infant health while reducing maternal and child mortality. Weekly SMS updates provide new and expectant mothers with vaccination schedules, healthy eating tips, and reminders on when to take medications and upcoming doctor visits.
Use What3Word technology to assign addresses to HIV positive mothers so healthcare worker can locate them more easily (with the help of Community Health Volunteers), ensuring they complete ART regimen to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV and avoid losing them in follow-up.
Promote Kangaroo Mother Care in clinics, a low-cost, easy to adopt solution to improving health and survival rates of pre-term and low birth weight babies.
Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a low-cost innovation recommended for the care for stable preterm neonates and low-birth weight babies. It refers to the prolonged and continuous skin-to skin contact between a mother (or other caregiver) and the preterm or low-birth weight baby for up to 24 hours a day. This is important where incubators and similar technologies are often scarce, over-crowded or unreliable, as well as costly.
Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a low-cost innovation recommended for the care for stable preterm neonates and low-birth weight babies. It refers to the prolonged and continuous skin-to skin contact between a mother (or other caregiver) and the preterm or low-birth weight baby for up to 24 hours a day. This is important where incubators and similar technologies are often scarce, over-crowded or unreliable, as well as costly.
Community need
Roughly seven million children under the age of five in Kenya are risk of death annually from diseases that could have been prevented.
It is estimated that half of the deaths that occur within a month of a child’s life occur on the first day of their lives mainly due to lack of access to proper health services for mothers during delivery. In Kenya, 12 out of every 100 live births in 2018 was a premature birth (WHO and UNICEF, 2018). Low birth weight (less than 2.5kgs at birth) is also a risk factor to the survival of the newborn.
It is estimated that half of the deaths that occur within a month of a child’s life occur on the first day of their lives mainly due to lack of access to proper health services for mothers during delivery. In Kenya, 12 out of every 100 live births in 2018 was a premature birth (WHO and UNICEF, 2018). Low birth weight (less than 2.5kgs at birth) is also a risk factor to the survival of the newborn.
HOW IT WORKS
Train Community Health Volunteers and Traditional Birth Attendants with links to health facilities responsible for mobilizing pregnant women in the community, linking them to ANC/PMTCT clinics.
Parents stay informed for free about the health of their family by getting weekly SMS updates unique to their family.
Weekly SMS updates provide new and expectant mothers with vaccination schedules, healthy eating tips, and reminders on when to take medications and upcoming doctor visits.
Introduce Kangaroo Mother Care to resource limited community clinics where incubators and similar technologies are often scarce, over-crowded or unreliable, as well as costly.
Parents stay informed for free about the health of their family by getting weekly SMS updates unique to their family.
Weekly SMS updates provide new and expectant mothers with vaccination schedules, healthy eating tips, and reminders on when to take medications and upcoming doctor visits.
Introduce Kangaroo Mother Care to resource limited community clinics where incubators and similar technologies are often scarce, over-crowded or unreliable, as well as costly.