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Help Send a Midwife to Congress! Support ICM’s Holiday Campaign 

ICM
18 November 2025

This holiday season, the ICM invites you to support our WithWomen campaign by helping cover the costs of taking a midwife to Congress. Your donation will support midwives from low- and middle-income countries to attend the 34th ICM Triennial Congress in Lisbon in 2026 – the largest and most important global gathering of midwives.

For many midwives, especially students and those early in their careers, attending an ICM Congress is a big professional goal that can feel out of reach. Registration fees, visas, travel and accommodation are often simply too expensive. Through WithWomen, ICM wants to take as many midwives as possible to its global gatherings so that cost is not the reason they stay home.

When you give, you are not just helping a midwife travel to Lisbon. You are opening the door for them to:

  • Learn from global experts and new research
  • Build leadership skills and confidence
  • Meet midwives from around the world and share experiences
  • See new ideas in midwifery that they can adapt to their own context

They return home with practical skills, fresh motivation and a stronger voice to advocate for women, gender diverse people, newborns and their profession.

About WithWomen

WithWomen strengthens midwifery and helps ensure every woman has access to safe, positive care throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period. By equipping midwives with quality, evidence-based practices, we can raise standards, overcome barriers to care, and prevent millions of deaths and complications each year. 

Donating to WithWomen helps ICM advance midwifery globally and promote midwives as trusted caregivers for childbearing women. 

This holiday season, you can make a lasting impact. Support WithWomen and help send a midwife to the 34th ICM Triennial Congress, enabling them to bring knowledge, skills and leadership back to their community and strengthen midwifery worldwide. 

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