A lack of care kills
A mother dies every two minutes from completely preventable causes related to pregnancy or childbirth.
Motherkind
Save a mother and her baby today by providing specialised care in crisis zones worldwide
Providing maternal health in conflict zones
What is Motherkind?
According to the World Health Organisation, a lack of access to good quality healthcare is fundamentally responsible for the vast majority of maternal deaths. Hundreds of women and babies are dying every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
Our Motherkind projects include maternal health clinics in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and the Rohingya camps and supporting midwives and nurses in Gaza. As we work in crisis zones, our programmes also provide primary healthcare for infants and children, including treating malnutrition.
What do our Motherkind clinics offer?
Our Motherkind programme provides ante-natal and post-natal care, safe deliveries, specialised care for babies and young children, including treatment for malnutrition and community outreach and education to mothers and their children in some of the most high-risk environments in the world.
Our worldwide clinics assisted around 200,000 patients in 2025 alone. Building on this success, our goal is to continue expanding our existing clinics, as well as supporting other iniatives for mothers and their children in crisis zones.
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Antenatal and postnatal care
We run dedicated antenatal (before birth) and postnatal (after birth) care services.
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Emergency delivery services
Clinics are equipped to provide safe delivery, medicines and vaccination programmes for mothers and babies.
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Training for Midwives
Training of female health workers and midwives so that mothers are supported by skilled caregivers.
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Community outreach
Education on nutrition, hygiene and maternal and child health in places where leaving home for care may not be easy.
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Specialised care for infants and children
This includes primary healthcare and treatment for malnutrition.
The situation
Socio-economic factors
Just over 90% of all maternal deaths occurred in low-income countries in 2023.
Impact of care
Well-trained midwives could help prevent two-thirds of all maternal and newborn deaths.
Why do so many women still die in pregnancy and childbirth?
In the vast majority of cases, the complications suffered in pregnancy or childbirth are fatal simply because the woman did not have access to the healthcare she needed to survive.
This is compounded by the additional obstacles faced by mothers and children in environments affected by conflict and other protracted crises.
The solution is simple: better and more accessible healthcare for all women and infants, including those in crisis zones, who are especially vulnerable.
Your donations to Motherkind help us deliver specialised and comprehensive care to women and babies in Gaza, Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen and the Rohingya refugee camps.
Real lives, real change
Until she arrived at the Motherkind Clinic in Afghanistan, Maria was completely unaware of the deadly parasitic infection draining the life of her 7-month-old baby, Omar. For months she agonised over his stunted growth, stuck at just 4kg and dangerously below average. Living on only $3 a day, life-saving treatment felt out of reach.
Everything changed at the Motherkind Clinic. Doctors prescribed vital nutritional supplements in the form of protein peanut paste, and within months Omar began to gain weight. But despite early improvement, he remained underweight. Further tests revealed the true cause of his wasting: a parasitic infection, requiring specialised treatment.
Now saved from acute malnutrition and organ failure, Omar weighs a healthier 7kg and is on the path to a strong childhood. Maria’s anxiety has lifted, but her fears reflect those of thousands of mothers in crisis zones. Motherkind clinics provide a vital lifeline, offering care and hope when families have nowhere else to turn.
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