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HEALTH · NATIONAL ADVOCACY17–18 June 2025

SASA: a national commitment to save mothers.

In June 2025, Fountain of Hope joined grassroots women champions and partners at the launch of the SASA Alliance in Nairobi — a strategic step to address the maternal health crisis and reduce the high maternal mortalities.

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“SASA Alliance launched yesterday to address the maternal health crisis. A commitment made to reduce the high maternal mortalities. Grassroots women champions present to show the commitment.”

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The SASA Alliance — Strategic Advocacy for Strategic Action — was launched in Nairobi to address the maternal health crisis, and with it came a commitment to reduce the high maternal mortalities. Fountain of Hope was there, among grassroots women champions from across Kenya and the continent, present to show the commitment — 17–18 June 2025.

The story, in frames

A launch, and the commitment in the room.

Nairobi, 17–18 June 2025: the SASA Alliance is launched, and the champions who carry the message — Fountain of Hope among them — gather to show the commitment.

Frame 01 / 03Grassroots women champions at the SASA Alliance launch

Champions from Fountain of Hope, Shina Foundation and Touch alife — there to show the commitment.

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Frame 02 / 03The SASA Alliance launch gathering in Nairobi

From Senegal to Tanzania, seven countries present for a continental commitment.

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Frame 03 / 03The SASA Alliance launch in Nairobi, in session

The room where a strategic alliance to reduce maternal mortality began.

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— The story —

Who showed up, and why it matters.

The SASA Alliance brought together grassroots women champions and organizations — Fountain of Hope, Shina Foundation and Touch alife — with partners from seven countries: Kenya, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania.

Grassroots and national in the same room — because ending maternal mortality needs both.

17–18 June 2025
Nairobi, Kenya
Grassroots women champions · seven countries · national partners
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The SASA Alliance gathering in Nairobi, June 2025
SASA ALLIANCE · NAIROBI · JUNE 2025

Seven countries, one commitment.

Grassroots women champions and partners from Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania — alongside Kenya — gathered to show the commitment.

The discussion, unpacked

Mortality is a coverage problem.

Why the alliance matters — and what a commitment made in a room means when it reaches a ward.

01 Why SASA, why now

The maternal health crisis is urgent and national — no single organization can close it alone. The SASA Alliance was launched in Nairobi specifically to address the maternal health crisis, and to move beyond speeches a commitment was made to reduce the high maternal mortalities. An alliance is how a commitment stops being a statement and becomes a plan.

Strategic Advocacy for Strategic Action: the name is the method — advocacy that carries the ask, action that delivers it, county by county.

02 What was in the room

Grassroots champions
Fountain of Hope, Shina Foundation and Touch alife among the grassroots women champions present to show the commitment.
Seven countries
Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania alongside Kenya — a continental commitment.
The ask
A coalition that turns strategic advocacy into strategic action, reaching the mothers the numbers count.
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SASA Alliance launched yesterday to address the maternal health crisis. A commitment made to reduce the high maternal mortalities. Grassroots women champions present to show the commitment.
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03 From a launch to a life

An alliance earns its name in delivery rooms, not speeches. For Fountain of Hope, SASA is the national conversation beside the Garissa work — the faith network, the radio, the budget meetings — all pushing the same commitment downward: fewer mothers lost.

The day in photos

The launch, in frames.

Seven photographs from Nairobi. Click each one to view it full screen.

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