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THE PITCH 變革攻略

你 不 孤 單

YOU’RE NOT Marina Watt, the co-founder of non-profit miscarriage support platform OAMA, met with mentor Diana Wu David to explore how to transform the project into a fully-fledged NGO. 非牟利小產母親支援平台OAMA的聯合創辦人屈家妍與導師 Diana Wu David對話,探討如何將平台發展為架構完整的NGO。 By Kate Springer | Photography by Anthony Kwan

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arina Watt experienced grief and hopelessness after having a miscarriage last summer. But she didnʼt let the loss engulf her. On the contrary, she was motivated to launch OAMA (Once a Mama, Always A Mama), a platform she co-founded in 2017 with friend Babie Li and social worker May Chung to provide emotional support and reliable information to women who, like her, went through that same loss. Although the Hong Kong government does not track miscarriage statistics for losses before 24 weeks, a 2013 survey by the Hong Kong College of Family Physicians estimates that miscarriages could affect as

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年夏天流產之後,屈家妍

經歷了一段艱難的日子。悲 傷,絕望,接踵而來。不

過,她並沒有任由自己被吞噬,而是

化傷痛為動力,和朋友李彥儀及社工

鍾嘉欣一起創立了支援平台OAMA,

意思是「一時媽媽,終身媽媽」 (Once a

Mama, Always a Mama)。平台專為

像她一樣經歷喪胎之痛的母親提供情緒 支援和可靠資訊。

香港政府並沒有記錄24週以下胎兒

流產的數據。香港家庭醫學學院在2013


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