Jacaranda Health is helping women improve their options during childbirth by providing access to high quality maternal care.

Why we care: In the urban areas of Nairobi, women lack access to quality, safe, friendly facilities where they can deliver their babies.

How we’re solving this: By setting up a small hospital with affordable services for low-income women in eastern Nairobi.

Jacaranda Health is aiming to change the way that maternity care is provided in East Africa, by creating a friendly, high-quality maternity care for women in peri-urban areas. In Nairobi, more than 2 million people live in low-income areas like these, where health conditions and availability of medical services is poor. Their other options for childbirth include crowded public facilities, expensive private hospitals, or delivering at home.

Jacaranda’s patients are hardworking urban women who are often the primary breadwinner for their family. They work in the informal sector—as domestic help, vegetable sellers, or shop-owners—or as casual laborers. They desire and deserve access to high quality, friendly, affordable health care.

With your help, we can create small, well-equipped birthing centers with trained, skilled and friendly staff to help women deliver their babies safely in a supportive environment. This project will help purchase 10 beds and equipment, such as emergency carts, lights, infant warmers, resuscitation tools, and autoclaves.