About Us
 The
Foundation for Mother and Child Health (FMCH) started its first programmes
in Jakarta in 2001. Opening a mother-and-child centre, it provided health,
nutrition, education and sustainable skills training programmes for mothers,
children and community health workers. Now also providing a mobile health
education and small skills training unit that visit other areas within
Jakarta, and expanding its programmes to other remote areas of Indonesia,
FMCH has established a very successful presence in this country.
In May 2004, Barbara Jayson, Chairwoman of the Foundation
for Mother and Child Health, was awarded an MBE for her work in Indonesia.
To learn more about the Foundation for Mother and Child
Health, or Yayasan Balita Sehat as it is known locally in Jakarta, Indonesia
please click here.
In December 2004, the world witnessed the effect of the
devastating tsunami in Asia. In response to this disaster, Barbara Jayson,
one of the Founding members of FMCH, and her colleague Jenny de Montfort
put together a book of recipes donated from well known chefs, cooks and
food & wine writers in order to raise funds to help victims of the
disaster.
 East
Meets West became a best seller and won a Special Award of the Jury
by the World Gourmand Cookery Book Awards in May 2006.
Funds raised from sales of East Meets West were used
to help victims in Sri Lanka and Aceh. In Aceh, proceeds helped the initiative
‘Response to Aceh’ set up preschools in refugee camps, train
preschool teachers and community health workers and provided much needed
guidance to communities devastated by the tsunami. UNICEF’s long
term maternal and child health programmes in Aceh also benefited from
funds received from “East meets West”.
In 2005, Leena Godiwala-Deubet, a former volunteer with
the FMCH mother-and-child centre in Jakarta, moved back to her home city
of Mumbai in India. Having witnessed the positive influence the centre
was having upon the lives of impoverished mothers and children in Jakarta,
she decided to open a branch of the Foundation for Mother and Child Health
in Mumbai.
The Foundation for Mother and Child Health, India
(FMCHI) or Bal Sehat Kendra as it is known locally, aims to improve pre
and post natal care through health, hygiene and nutrition programmes,
improve the health and nutrition of infants and children below 5 years
of age and educate children through a tri-lingual preschool in English,
Marathi and Hindi.
For further details on the activities of the Foundation
for Mother and Child Health, India please click
here.
The Foundation for Mother and Child Health is a registered
UK charity and a private company limited by guarantee.
All the Founders, Trustees and Consultants work on a
voluntary basis - only our local staff based in Indonesia and India receive
remuneration. We do not pay for expensive offices in the UK or have expensive
marketing and fundraising appeals.
All our donations come from word of mouth, direct appeals,
and most importantly, from people such as yourself, looking at this website.
Please help us to keep it this way. 
UK registered charity number 1117795
UK Company no. 05765489
Board of Trustees:
Barbara Jayson, MBE, SRN, BSc (Hons): Chairwoman
Kate Compton
Mona Hodgetts
Ilse Johnson: Company Secretary
Regional Managers:
Asih Puji Rahayu - Jakarta
Leena Godiwala Deubet – Mumbai
We have a number of professional consultants who support the Foundation
by providing expert advice on a voluntary basis. All but one of our Trustees
and professional consultants have lived and worked in developing countries
and have witnessed at first hand the effects that poverty and undernutrition
can wreak on the lives of young children.
Nutrition Consultant:
Jacquie Birt MSc
Kim Sanwogou MSc
Maternal and Child Health Consultant:
Deborah Taylor RGN, RGM, HV
PR & Communications Consultant:
Julia Lalla-Maharajh
We are all committed to help alleviate the suffering caused by poor education,
poverty, bad sanitation, unemployment and unclean water.
We hope you too will help us to help children have a future.
Click here if you wish to contact us or
help by making a donation.
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