Why Maternal Health
When reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) systems fail, women and girls pay the highest price.
Lives are lost, families break, poverty and inequalities deepen.
Over 3.5 million voices from women and girls across Kenya have revealed the gaps clearly: disrespect in maternity wards, empty facilities, unsafe journeys, lack of information, unaffordable care, and decisions made without them. These are not isolated problems. They form a polycrisis made up of economic, systemic, cultural, social and justice failures that cost lives and strip women of their dignity.
Reproductive, maternal and newborn health justice
Why: Because women face disrespect, empty facilities, unsafe journeys, lack of information and decisions made without them.
Leads to: Preventable deaths, broken trust and deepening inequality.
How: We advance respectful maternity and newborn care, strengthen self care literacy, and build voice and agency for women and girls to claim their rights. We push for stronger health systems, accountability and policies that deliver dignified, quality and equitable care.
Economic power, education and livelihoods
Why: Because poverty, exclusion and lack of education keep women and girls from accessing care.
Leads to: Lost opportunities, unsafe births and generational cycles of poverty.
How: We expand access to income, skills, literacy and reintegration, creating pathways for women and girls to access and afford the care they need.
Transformative women leadership
Why: Because women are too often excluded or tokenised in decisions that shape their health and futures.
Leads to: Power gaps, weak accountability and systems that ignore lived realities.
How: We equip women and girls to lead with confidence, influence policy and shape the systems that affect their lives and communities.
Community action and local organizing
Why: Because accountability starts in communities, yet power and voice are often silenced.
Leads to: Weak systems, unheard voices and persistent inequality.
How: We build collective power through organising, advocacy and action, ensuring communities drive and sustain quality, equity and dignity in care.
What sets us apart
We are not just responding to problems. We are shifting power.
We start with lived truths from the real experts
Over 3.5 million women and girls have spoken and their voices shape everything we do.
We centre women as drivers of change
Not beneficiaries, but decision makers, leaders and architects of solutions.
We tackle the polycrisis as one reality
Economic, social, cultural and systemic barriers are addressed together, not in isolation.
We build power from the ground up
We believe in the 4Ps as a framework for change, bringing together People, Practice, Programming and Policy to create lasting accountability.
We anchor justice, dignity and rights. Maternal health is not a siloed development issue. It is about power, equity, justice and rights.
This is what makes our work different. It is why women trust us, why communities rally with us, and why systems must respond.
