Our history

We are a Spanish non profit organization founded by Nerea Roldán, Raquel Pérez and Ana Ramos. We have a great team of collaborators and volunteers. We are dedicated to cooperation in Sexual and Reproductive health. We have been working for years in different obstetric and uro-gynecological practice scenarios.

Our goal is to reduce maternal and infant mortality, prevent and mitigate complications in childbirth, improve the quality of care for women, and sensitize, educate, and empower girls and women. After undertaking an investigation of the situation of women in Africa, we created a very specific cooperation project on women's health. Years later, after several missions in Senegal, we decided to consolidate our project and found Ser Madre Ser Mujer. They were several years of work that finally, thanks to the good reception of the project by the SEMHU (Spanish Society of Humanitarian Medicine), saw the light in the first mission to Senegal in March 2015.

We emerged as a pioneer non profit organization in the face of the existing gap in the rehabilitation of obstetric sequelae, gynecological dysfunctions, and perineal trauma caused by genital mutilation, rape, and sexual abuse.

To this day we have nearly twenty international missions. We work in Senegal, Togo, The Gambia and Cabo Verde. All thanks to the work of our team and the support of our collaborators, partners and volunteers, and the collaboration agreement that we have with the JESÚS SERRA Foundation since 2018.

Every day 830 women between the ages of 13 and 45 die in the world from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Most of these deaths could be prevented with better health services and proper healthcare.

Many women survive complicated deliveries, but the vast majority of these cause obstetric sequelae of varying severity. Obstetric fistulas, tears, detachment of viscera, incontinence, vaginismus, neuralgia, genital pain, sexual dysfunction.

Women who suffer this type of sequelae find themselves helpless, without trained health personnel for their treatment and suffer in silence their terrible physical, mental, social and family marks.

Sexual abuse and rape are frequent and go unpunished, and girls are sometimes forced to marry at a very early age. Pregnancy, child marriages and sexual abuse are the leading cause of school dropout, with devastating consequences for education, equality and development.