In 2010, AMURT launched a program in Nigeria aimed at developing community healthcare systems and reducing the country's maternal mortality rate, one of the world's highest. Providing some of Nigeria's poorest and most rural areas with proper health facilities warrants the service of more than one NGO, so AMURT has teamed with ActionAid Nigeria as well as Nigeria's overwhelmed state health department and the members of local communities to accomplish this task.
In partnership with the NGO “Water Shed Management” AMURT initiated a new program aimed at finding ways to collect surface water (rain water) and prevent runoff. In collaboration with the communities we established varieties of small check dams, repaired existing dams, created basins to gather the water from around trees and the surfaces of crop fields.