Caring Report 2025—Caring for Women and Children
The Relief Society General Presidency is leading efforts across the Church to prioritize the health and well-being of women and children. This global effort focuses primarily on maternal and newborn care, child nutrition, immunizations, and education and encourages others to care for the women and children in their communities.
A Collaborative Effort
In 2025, the Church provided a leadership role, led by the Relief Society General Presidency, in convening eight global humanitarian organizations and grouping them into four consortia, each focused on projects benefiting women and children.
As a result of this collaborative effort, millions of women and children are receiving vital resources to help them flourish. As of April 2025, the consortia helped:
- 219,000 pregnant mothers receive prenatal care.
- 21.2 million children and mothers receive vitamins (which exceeded the 12 million goal).
- 1.87 million children to be screened for malnutrition and treated if needed.
- 141,000 families receive seeds and training to grow nutritious gardens at home.
Priorities
Maternal and Newborn Care
With limited resources available in a remote area of Ghana, locals needed increased access to maternal and newborn care, including to trained medical professionals. To help with this need, the Church contributed to the Engage Now Africa organization for a new state-of-the-art mother-and-child hospital. The new facility now supports more than a million people in the region and helps ensure that mothers and newborns can receive essential care.
In Mongolia, the Church supported the creation of a medical training room at Amgalan Maternity Hospital in Ulaanbaatar. This space helps newly graduated doctors gain vital skills in midwifery, improving care for mothers and their newborns.
Child Nutrition
To combat malnutrition in children across the globe, the Church established the Child Nutrition Effort, which empowers local Church leaders to run nutrition screenings in Church meetinghouses and gives families the resources and support they need to improve their children’s health.
The Church also collaborates with organizations focused on improving child nutrition, such as CARE, Save the Children, the Hunger Project, and MAP International, to name a few. “Collaboration remains at the heart of this initiative; we create the greatest impact through our united efforts,” President Camille N. Johnson said of these combined projects.
Immunizations
In Pakistan, the Church supported immunization drives run by UNICEF and other organizations. Maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) elimination drives helped nearly 80 percent of the Pakistani population become safe from MNT.
With this significant portion of the population protected, many families have been spared from the grief and loss of MNT. Shazia Tabassum, a health care worker helping with vaccinations, said, “Vaccines and other health services are saving and changing lives here. We need this support to continue so that everyone has access to the services they need.”
Education
Education plays a vital role in setting up individuals for success and self-reliance. In 2025, the Church focused especially on efforts to improve literacy among women and children. In Vanuatu, the Church worked with Unite for Literacy to distribute books to families—helping strengthen bonds between mothers and children, support cognitive development, and open doors to both spiritual and secular learning.
The Church also carried out educational projects primarily impacting women and children. For example, in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, thousands of youth assembled school kits to provide children with the supplies they need to succeed in school and build brighter futures.
Empowered to Save Lives
In Sierra Leone, midwives like Adama are gaining lifesaving skills to better care for newborns in their first critical moments of life. In a collaboration between Project HOPE and the Church, 30 midwives received hands-on training in newborn resuscitation and postnatal care.
“It’s a blessing to be a midwife, to bring someone into the world,” Adama says. Now, with enhanced training and confidence, she and her fellow midwives are not only improving outcomes for mothers and babies but also strengthening entire communities, one birth at a time.
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