Every Mother Deserves a Safe Birth
Creating Access to Safe Childbirth for Families in Kamangilira Village in Malawi
Compassion in Action for Mothers and Newborns
Violets Charities is a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming maternal healthcare in rural Malawi. Our focus is on creating safe, dignified, and accessible childbirth experiences for women who currently face life-threatening risks simply by giving birth. We believe no mother should have to choose between distance and survival.
Through community partnership and medical expertise, we are working to build the region’s first community-centered maternity hospital in Kamangilira Village. Our approach is rooted in respect, cultural understanding, and long-term impact. Every initiative we take is guided by compassion, collaboration, and an unwavering commitment to saving lives.
Care That Protects Life at Its Beginning
Our birthing center will provide services that are designed to meet mothers where they are and provide comprehensive, life-saving care during childbirth.
Safe Childbirth Services
Skilled birth attendants provide monitored, hygienic, and supportive deliveries to reduce preventable maternal and newborn deaths.
Prenatal and Postnatal Support
Mothers receive education, monitoring, and follow-up care to promote healthy pregnancies and recoveries.
Emergency Obstetric Care
On-site medical response for complications during labor and delivery ensures timely, life-saving interventions.
Built With the Community, For the Community
Our work goes beyond healthcare by creating sustainable solutions grounded in trust, dignity, and local leadership.
✓ Community-Driven Vision
The hospital is shaped by mothers, elders, and leaders who know the needs of Kamangilira best.
✓ Founder-Led Medical Expertise
A nurse practitioner with firsthand experience bridges world-class care and local realities.
✓ Access Where It’s Needed Most
Care is brought directly to a rural area where distance has long been a deadly barrier.
✓ Focus on Dignity and Respect
Every mother is treated with compassion, cultural understanding, and human dignity.
From One Woman’s Journey to a Community’s Hope
Violet Galaz, the founder of our nonprofit, was born in Malawi. At 15, she migrated to the United States to continue her studies. Today, she serves as a dedicated Nurse Practitioner at one of New Mexico’s largest hospitals—yet Malawi has never left her heart.
Every time Violet returns home, she sees the same devastating reality: the quiet strength of Malawian mothers overshadowed by the dangers of childbirth in a region without reliable maternal care.
In the rural village of Kamangilira, women in labor face an impossible choice.
With no nearby birthing center, mothers must walk miles—sometimes for hours—hoping to reach help in time.
But many never do.
Too many babies take their first and last breath on the roadside.
Too many women die from complications that could have been treated.
Too many families suffer losses that were entirely preventable.
In 2025, Violet gathered the community leaders, mothers, and grandmothers of Kamangilira to ask a simple but powerful question:
How do we end these tragedies?
Together, the answer became clear:
- Build the region’s first community-centered maternity hospital.
- A place where childbirth is safe.
- Where trained birth attendants are present.
- Where emergency care is available.
- Where distance is no longer a death sentence.
- A 9-acre plot of land has already been purchased.
- The nonprofit has completed all legal filings.
- The community is ready and eager to break ground the moment funding becomes available.
- This hospital will not just be a building.
It will be a promise.
A promise that in Kamangilira and surrounding villages, no woman should fear giving birth.
A promise that every newborn deserves a fighting chance.
A promise that quality healthcare should belong to everyone, not only to those who can reach it.
When completed, this maternity hospital will stand as a symbol of hope—a place built from loss, driven by love, and shaped by the very people it will serve.
This is how the story began.
And with your support, this is where countless lives will be saved.