With healthy mothers come a healthy future.

With healthy mothers come healthy children. With healthy children come a healthy future. One particular community we visited had been declared a zone of peace. Now that peace has been achieved for this community, they can have development that they much deserve.

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Although it’s difficult for the Philippines to decrease the risks associated with maternal health, they’re working diligently to combat them. While in one geographically remote community, they expressed the problems that many of their expectant mothers face. The leader proudly declared that there are plans for a birthing center to be built in thei
r town. The current lack of a midwife or healthcare provider present at the birth further increases the mothers and child’s risk for death. By building a new birthing center in this community, the government is actively combating the country’s reputation for poor maternal health.

Many Filipinos take pride in their home communities, just like anyone would in our home communities. When the government listens to the concerns of its people and takes steps to continue to improve the communities of the people the overall moral of the community improves. Many of the people living in Mindanao have gone through so much trauma. They deserve to have access to adequate health infrastructure, among other things. Although many of these people are isolated from larger metropolises because of the remote geographical location and for this same reason have limited medical workers, at least the community can look forward to a healthy future. Hopefully a healthy and peaceful community focused on continuing development is a sign of sustaining peace!