By Elizabeth Grezda | Executive Director
She didn’t know she had it
When her baby was taken to the NICU, she looked lost—tired, scared, unsure where to begin. Our midwife Esmeralda sat beside her and gently reassured her that she wasn’t alone.
She explained how breast pumping could help keep her milk supply, especially while her tiny baby couldn’t nurse yet. The mother had never heard of colostrum before. Together, they expressed a little—and her eyes lit up when she saw it for the first time. She took that colostrum down to the NICU to help her baby.
In that moment, she didn’t just discover the first milk her baby needed—she found hope and possibility.
This is what your support makes possible.
Through our Prenatal Education program, you’re not just funding classes—you’re giving mothers confidence, knowledge, and someone to lean on when they need it most. For mothers of premature babies, this means one-on-one care in the most vulnerable days of their lives.
Because of the impact you’ve made, one partner hospital has invited us to increase the number of prenatal classes we run, so we can reach more mothers before they give birth. Another hospital has asked us to continue our NICU mothers’ support group, where women share their fears, gain strength from one another, and receive expert guidance.
We’ve also started preparing 100 more “Boxes of Joy”—filled with practical items and comfort gifts—for mothers in need at both hospitals and at a new partner hospital outside Tirana. These boxes are often the only source of essentials for new mothers struggling financially.
Every donation you give on GlobalGiving translates into an immediate, life-changing difference: more mothers reached, more babies given the best start in life, more hope delivered exactly when it’s needed most.
From all of us at The Mother and Child Hosptial Foundation, and from every mother and baby you’ve touched—thank you for making this work possible.
With gratitude,
Elizabeth Grezda
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