Empowering mothers through health.

We believe that every mother has the right…

…to adequate health care, no matter their economic status or geographical location. The Mata Jai Kaur Centre is dedicated to supporting the most vulnerable women in the world by providing them access to quality healthcare before, during and following pregnancy.

Every year, roughly 300,000 women die from causes related to childbirth. More than 99% of these deaths occur in developing areas, and the vast majority can be entirely prevented by improving access to the most basic health services. From a global perspective, this is a true crisis. It impacts the families of these women and has long term socioeconomic implications for their communities and the larger region.

WHAT ARE WE DOING TO HELP?

From a remote village, to a global solution.

Since 2009, the Mata Jai Kaur (MJK) Centre has grown from serving a single village to conducting research and providing care to tens of thousands of vulnerable women and children across the rural and remote regions of Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India.

Our goal is to adapt our primary care approach and achieve similar success within other communities around the world who experience similar challenges.

Kiran Kumbhar, a medical doctor from India and current PhD candidate at Harvard University writes a profile of MJK Executive Director and Co-Founder Aneel Brar in 2016.

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Listen to Aneel Brar discuss the challenges of developing a  perinatal mental health program in rural Rajasthan with Dr. Angelika Love, a social integration and diversity researcher from Oxford University. 

Part 1

Part 2

Watch Aneel Brar discuss  perinatal depression and developing a male-focused, gender based violence intervention program,with Ms. Soumya Singh and Dr. Prerana Pandia.

Watch here.

In this peer-reviewed article published in PLOS ONE, Aneel Brar and colleagues share lessons using a mixed-methods sampling tool to inform equity focused maternal health programming. 

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Read how MJK’s Khushee Mamta Program is helping tackle gender-based violence and perinatal depression in rural India in a recent post by Chandan Singh Sekhon.

Read the post here.

“If I had not come to MJK, I might have died. I wouldn’t have received any treatment…my baby could have died.”

– Kulwinder

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