Maternity Foundation and Gnosis by Lesaffre Join Hands to Ensure Healthier Pregnancies for Women in Low-Resource Settings
Copenhagen, December 12, 2025 – The NGO Maternity Foundation and the company Gnosis by Lesaffre have formed a partnership to advance healthier pregnancies for women in some of the world’s most fragile and remote settings. When pregnancies are healthier, complications fall, and more mothers and babies survive and thrive. This reality underscores the need for strong partnerships that prioritize prevention and expand access to quality care. To this end, the partners will engage in joint advocacy efforts while advancing midwifery education.
As part of the partnership, Gnosis will provide significant financial support over three years to accelerate the expansion of Maternity Foundation’s Safe Delivery App – a job aid, training, and microlearning tool that helps midwives deliver quality care to pregnant women, mothers, and newborns in low-resource settings, in line with WHO guidelines. The App, which is free and works offline, has already reached 500,000 healthcare professionals worldwide, together with its accompanying training programme.
A key focus of the partnership will be promoting the Safe Delivery App’s antenatal care module, which guides midwives on providing quality care throughout pregnancy. Leveraging Maternity Foundation’s master trainers and awareness-raising activities, the rollout of the App’s clinical content will be efficiently cascaded to midwives at scale, strengthening their capacity to support healthier pregnancies in low-resource settings worldwide.
Additionally, the partners will collaborate to increase global and country-level awareness of the importance of promoting healthier pregnancies, emphasizing proper nutrition and supplementation — particularly folate — as essential for improving maternal and newborn health outcomes.
“Our partnership with Gnosis by Lesaffre exemplifies how cross-sector collaboration can drive meaningful progress in maternal and newborn health. By joining forces — through joint advocacy and by leveraging the Safe Delivery App and its accompanying training programme — we can accelerate efforts to promote healthier pregnancies, ultimately contributing to safer births and better beginnings for babies,” says Anna Frellsen, CEO of Maternity Foundation.
“At Gnosis by Lesaffre, our purpose is to elevate the well-being of humanity, and no endeavor is more sacred than nurturing mothers and, in turn, their children—the foundation for healthier generations to come,” says Marion Garel, Gnosis Director of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Cross-Divisional Coordinator. “Proper nutrition is the cornerstone of this noble pursuit, and supplementation becomes essential when we fall short in obtaining vital vitamins and nutrients from diet alone.
“While folic acid has long been the standard of care for Vitamin B9, research shows that not everyone metabolizes it in the same way,” Garel adds. “This reinforces the importance of ensuring that women everywhere have access to folate forms that can support their individual needs, so that every pregnancy has the best possible start.”
The Safe Delivery App’s antenatal care module is currently available in the Arabic, French, and English global master versions of the App, as well as in the national versions for India and Ethiopia. With more than 30 language editions already in use, plans are underway to expand the module further, ensuring it reaches more countries and supports more midwives in the years ahead.
About the partners:
Maternity Foundation (MF) is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), working to ensure safer births for women and newborns – everywhere! Maternity Foundation builds skills and knowledge among midwives and other healthcare professionals through effective learning and training programmes and the proven digital health solution, the Safe Delivery App.
Gnosis by Lesaffre, a business unit of the Lesaffre Group, uses the power of microorganisms and biotransformation processes to cultivate unique active ingredients through fermentation, as well as probiotics and nutritional, functional yeasts that benefit human health, longevity, and well-being. Its high-quality solutions are meticulously studied, replicable, and reliable as the company scales its collaboration with nutraceutical and pharmaceutical brands to develop revolutionary products that help customers thrive.
Gnosis by Lesaffre – Think like Nature to raise the standard of human health. http://www.GnosisByLesaffre.com
Media Contact:
Maternity Foundation: Helle Degn, based in Washington DC, helle@maternity.dk
Gnosis by Lesaffre: Kate Quackenbush, based in Ewing, NJ, k.quackenbush@gnosis.lesaffre.com
