Our Stories

BIPOC and Indigenous maternal health in Alberta is shaped by systemic barriers and limited culturally safe care. Freedom Tree's Bridging the Gap program provides hospital advocacy, doula access, postpartum support and anti-racism education so every mother receives the compassionate care she deserves

Freedom Tree's Global Initiatives Program in Calgary Alberta is turning teenagers into global citizens and community leaders. Through civic education and hands-on engagement with real world issues, youth at the Boys and Girls Club of Alberta are discovering their power to create change.

A young Indigenous woman navigating family challenges and maternal health fears in her own community discovers Freedom Tree and reaches beyond her own pain to help others in Sierra Leone. 

Black maternal health in Alberta is shaped by systemic racism in healthcare that too many women experience and too few people talk about. Juliet's story of giving birth in Calgary exposes the cold reality of racialized maternal care and why Freedom Tree's Bridging the Gap program exists so no BIPOC

Sierra Leone has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates — but Freedom Tree is changing that. Through birthing clinics, skilled midwife training, and community maternal health programs, preventable maternal deaths are being stopped. The crisis is urgent.

Every two minutes a woman dies in childbirth somewhere in the world. In Sierra Leone, maternal mortality remains a devastating crisis. Freedom Tree’s birthing clinics are proving that safe delivery in developing countries is possible — with trained midwives, clean facilities, and your support. 

The first child named after Freedom Tree’s founder in Sierra Leone is alive today because a birthing clinic was there when her mother needed it most. This maternal health impact story from Sierra Leone shows the power of showing up. Hope is not a feeling. It is a clinic. Its a community.

A mother in Sierra Leone had buried so many children she was afraid to name her newborn. This maternal health story from Sierra Leone shows the devastating impact of infant mortality — and the transformative power of Freedom Tree’s birthing clinics. One safe birth changes everything. 

When Prince George was born the world celebrated — but on that same day, a baby was born in a Sierra Leone village that no one noticed. Freedom Tree founder Tara saw those two equal lives and knew something had to change. Every child born into this world has potential. Every life is precious. 

Freedom Tree founder Tara discovered her purpose in Sierra Leone and has spent years turning that calling into clinics, schools, and thousands of saved lives. This is the story of a Canadian humanitarian leader who refused to wait for someone else to act — and what happened when she didn’t.

People sometimes ask why Freedom Tree chose Sierra Leone. The answer is simple: because it is where the need is most urgent. Because if we believe every life matters, we have to be willing to go to the hardest places and stay. 

Tara did not start Freedom Tree because it was convenient. She started it because she saw what was happening to mothers in Sierra Leone and realized nobody else was going to fix it. What began as one woman's response to a crisis has grown into a movement of donors, partners and committed builders.