In a letter dated 19/12/2019, this charity stated: ‘Embrace currently supports maternal care projects with three partners.  Our funding focuses on maternal care and safe delivery, as this is the support our partners have requested. These projects do not have a specific focus on family planning.  Terminations are generally illegal in the Middle east or very heavily regulated and this is not a service which our partners are equipped or legally mandated to perform.

‘However they would, where appropriate, refer cases on to the appropriate clinics, for instance in high risk pregnancies.’

Here are two extracts from the EMBRACE website:

‘Health knowledge is health power! our Christian partners train community volunteers to run free health information classes. Topics include food hygiene, nutrition, family planning, infectious disease prevention and child health.’

https://www.embraceme.org/alternative-gifts/keep-healthy

‘Think & Do’ is a project run by Embrace which provides ‘literacy classes, run by local women, for women and girls in their communities who have missed out on their education. Classes and seminars are available on a wide variety of subjects, including childhood nutrition, prevention and treatment of common diseases, family planning, female genital mutilation (FGM), food hygiene and other practical topics relevant to everyday life.’

https://www.embraceme.org/partner/think-do