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No one should have to give birth alone and risk losing their baby or their life.
In 2024, we estimate 46 women every minute will give birth without a doctor, nurse or midwife present.
But, thanks to our supporters, we work to enable safe birth with trained midwives, Emergency Health Units and specialist birthing kits, as well as life-saving equipment and medicines.
Midwives
We train midwives all over the world to create lasting change for children from the moment they enter the world.
These midwives travel for hours to rural locations and go where they’re needed most – from war zones and refugee camps, to borders and remote communities.
Emergency Health Units
Our Emergency Health Units respond to disasters that wipe out entire communities, as well as forgotten crises where children’s suffering can go unnoticed. Services include life-saving maternal care, as well as vaccinations, mental health support and treatment for common diseases and malnutrition.
It's the very first of many ways that we help to create lasting change for and with children.
Alice, the inspirational midwife behind our new campaign
Alice is a Save the Children midwife – and a superstar.
Over three decades – including during civil war and the Ebola crisis – she’s devoted herself to helping women in her community in Liberia give birth safely. “If I don’t deliver a child a day I feel so bad… because it’s what I love,” she says.
Alice works in a rural health clinic Save the Children helped build and continues to support with equipment: like motorbikes!
In the rainy season when flooding makes it impossible for women to get to the clinic to give birth, Alice can still support them by using the motorbike to get to their homes.
It's the very first of many ways that we help to create lasting change for and with children.
She’s turned down the chance of promotion because she didn’t want to give up her frontline work. “I said, ‘No. I really love doing deliveries… I want to be where I am,’” she explains.
That passion and commitment mean Alice has become a local hero. Babies that Alice helped deliver are often named in her honour, so today, there are more than 1,000 babies named after her in the community! A remarkable legacy of a remarkable woman.
You can read Alice's full story here
Journeys like Alice’s are taking place all over the world to reach more women in some of the most dangerous and remote places to give birth.
Here's a few of the things we're doing;
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