A Mother's Embrace Is Life-Saving.
You can help deliver it. Each year, 2.3 million newborns die in their first month of life. Kangaroo Mother Care, simple skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding support, can reduce that risk by up to 40%.
Kangaroo Mother Care
At a glance
2.3 million newborns lost each year
Imagine a baby born too small and too soon, fighting for every breath. Leaving the hospital is just the beginning of a perilous journey, and families often lack the support to help them survive and grow.
There is a powerful, proven solution: Kangaroo Mother Care, a simple practice of skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding support that can reduce mortality in premature babies by up to 40%.
But the challenge isn't the solution, it's delivering it. Kangaroo Mother Care coverage remains below 5% for eligible infants worldwide, leaving millions of newborns at risk.
Hope arrives at the doorstep
This is where you come in.
Your support sends a trained, local Frontline Worker, often a woman from her own community, directly to a new mother's home.
We make this possible through our mobile platform, Connect by Dimagi. Think of it as the direct link between your generosity and that mother's doorstep. It ensures every Frontline Worker is paid for her life-saving work and that every dollar you give is tied to a verified visit.
Frontline Workers use Dimagi's Connect app on a simple smartphone to complete training on Kangaroo Mother Care, deliver services, and receive payments for verified delivery.
With the Connect KMC app, Frontline Workers are equipped with the knowledge to:
- Guide a mother through KMC best practices.
- Counsel her on breastfeeding.
- Screen the baby for critical danger signs and make life-saving referrals.
This model combats the community stigma often faced by mothers of premature babies by pairing families with a trusted mentor for essential support and encouragement.
How your gift creates verifiable impact
We believe in trust through transparency. Our Connect platform ensures your generosity creates real-world impact you can count on. Here's how:
You Give
Your donation trains a local Frontline Worker and gives her life-saving tools, a digital app and essential supplies to support mothers and newborns.
She Delivers Care
A trained Frontline Worker visits a new mother at home, providing expert guidance, checking the baby's health, and offering compassionate support.
Impact Is Verified
Using her phone, the worker confirms the visit, verifying that the baby was checked and the mother received essential support. It's how we ensure your gift makes a real impact.
Ready to reach thousands more
Our approach is designed to be simple, effective, and scalable. We invest in local Frontline Workers, providing them with the training and fair pay needed to deliver proven newborn care directly in a family's home.
This efficient and effective framework is ready to grow. Your support helps us expand this vital work to thousands more families in new communities and countries.
We recently tested the power of this community-led model in a pilot program in Uganda. The results showed its incredible potential for rapid deployment:
In just eight weeks, our partners reached and provided care for more than 650 small and vulnerable newborns.
One gift creates a ripple of change
When you fund a Frontline Worker, your impact is multiplied across an entire community. That means:
This is a sustainable, community-powered solution that changes futures.
Fund a Frontline Worker. Help a newborn.
Your gift provides the training, tools, and support a Frontline Worker needs to deliver this life-saving care.
This foundational gift funds the complete cycle of Kangaroo Mother Care support for one vulnerable newborn and their mother, from the first home visit to a healthy start in life.
DonateYour gift supports three newborns and their mothers, allowing a Frontline Worker to build a trusted relationship and deliver consistent, life-saving guidance within her community.
DonateThis gift equips a Frontline Worker with the tools, transport, and fair pay to support 10 babies. You are creating a powerful ripple of change and ensuring an entire cohort of vulnerable newborns receives care.
DonateThis transformative gift provides a full caseload to a Frontline Worker for six months, enabling her to support 30 babies and their mothers, dramatically improving the survival rate for premature newborns across an entire village or neighborhood.
DonateYour generous gift of any amount will directly support a Frontline Worker and the families in her care.
DonateDonations to Connect Kangaroo Mother Care are made through Players Philanthropy Fund, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit serving as fiscal sponsor. All gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Your questions, answered
01Is my gift tax-deductible?
Yes, your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Our fiscal sponsor, Players Philanthropy Fund (PPF), is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. You will receive an email confirmation from PPF after your donation is processed, and tax receipts will also be provided at a later date for donations over $250.
02Where does my money go?
Your donation directly funds the cost of delivering care to a vulnerable newborn. This involves a trained Frontline Worker who identifies an at-risk baby at a health facility and then makes regular home visits for the next 1–2 months of the child's life. During each visit, she spends valuable time counseling the mother and other caregivers and screens the child for any danger signs. A gift of $60 covers the full program for one baby, which includes:
- Fair payment to the Frontline Worker for her time and transport during these home visits.
- Costs for the local organization to provide supervision and supplies (like a Kangaroo Mother Care wrap, weighing scales, and other medical equipment).
- The Connect platform fee (20% of the cost) that makes the verification and payment possible.
03Which countries do you work in?
Currently, our Kangaroo Mother Care program is active in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. We are focused on sustainable growth and are in the process of expanding to additional countries. Your generous donation supports our work across all regions.
04How do you know the visits actually happen?
This is what makes our model different. The Connect platform uses digital markers like GPS data and timestamps to verify that a Frontline Worker was at the right place at the right time, and that quality care data was submitted. This allows us to pay for proven impact with confidence.
05How can I get in touch if I have more questions?
If you'd like to learn more about the Kangaroo Mother Care program or have any questions about your donation, please contact us at connect-kmc@dimagi.com. We're happy to provide additional information.
06I saw that Dimagi is a for-profit company. Why are you collecting donations?
While Dimagi is a for-profit social enterprise, all donations received are exclusively dedicated to charitable programs. To ensure that your contribution directly supports its intended cause, we partner with Players Philanthropy Fund (PPF), a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit fiscal sponsor. PPF is responsible for the management and allocation of these funds to program activities.