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Find out more about the LIFE crowdfunding campaign. The project is a serious game that will train healthcare workers to act correctly in emergency neonatal situations.
470,000 babies die each year in Africa on the day they are born. This figure increases to 1 million deaths within the first 28 days. The LIFE project directly addresses this avoidable tragedy by using low-cost smartphones to give as many healthcare workers as possible the knowledge they need to provide life-saving treatment to mothers and newborns.
 
A story of life
LIFE is a scenario-based mobile gaming platform that will teach healthcare workers to identify and manage medical emergencies, using game-like training techniques to reinforce the key steps that need to be performed for a healthcare worker to save the life of a newborn baby in distress.
 
“The LIFE project is both innovative and transformative. It shows the way we should think about and take advantage of the changing technological landscape in Africa”
Dr Wilson Were, World Health Organisation’s Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health
 
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