Right now, in Ghana’s mining communities, unborn children are being poisoned before they take their first breath. Mercury and cyanide from illegal gold mining cross the placenta, causing miscarriage, low birth weight, brain damage and lifelong disability.
Womb to Water stops this.
We place trained midwives in the hardest-hit villages to give every pregnant woman and nursing mother:
- Free, instant dual mercury + cyanide blood testing
- Immediate chelation therapy and antidote treatment for high-risk cases
- Nutritional packs proven to shield babies from toxins
At the same time, we install rapid-response biofiltration ponds and plant barriers directly upstream so the water reaching the village is clean within months.
In our first Obuasi pilot we have already screened 150 mothers, treated 38 urgent cases, and cut downstream toxins by 60 %.
We need £800,000 to reach 2,000 mothers and babies in the next 12 months.
This funds:
- 2,000 full prenatal toxin tests and treatments
- 500 high-risk chelation/antidote interventions
- 50 community-scale biofiltration systems across Ashanti and Western Regions
Every day we wait, another child is born carrying poison for life.
Donate now and give a Ghanaian mother the one thing no amount of money should ever be able to buy: a healthy baby and clean water.