In the dusty corners of refugee camps and the makeshift shelters scattered across towns in Kenya, a quiet battle unfolds — one that too often ends in tragedy.

For refugee women, pregnancy isn’t a journey of joy — it’s a path lined with fear, silence, and survival. Many face labor without a midwife. Without an ambulance. Without even a clinic in sight.

According to UNHCR and UNFPA reports, more than 60% of refugee women give birth without skilled medical help. This means no trained midwife, no doctor, not even a nurse. Just the raw courage of a woman, her body, and the uncertainty of whether she or her baby will make it through the night.

These numbers are more than statistics. They are stories of women left behind — stories of lives lost not because they couldn’t be saved, but because they weren’t seen.

Lack of access to maternal care is a death sentence in slow motion.

Without medical support, complications such as postpartum hemorrhage, obstructed labor, or infections go untreated. Each of these can turn fatal within hours. Refugee women are at a much higher risk of maternal death, and their babies face extreme odds from the moment they take their first breath — if they get the chance to.

At Sebineza, we refuse to accept this as normal.

Our mission is to restore dignity, safety, and care to every refugee mother. We advocate, we support, and we fight to make sure no woman has to go through childbirth alone, afraid, or unprotected.

You can help us rewrite this story.

Donate. Share. Advocate. With Sebineza.

Let’s make safe motherhood a reality, not a privilege.