For most people reading this, childbirth is frightening but survivable.
There are hospitals. There are doctors. There are emergency rooms and neonatal units and teams of people trained for every complication. When something goes wrong — and sometimes it does — help is there.
Now imagine giving birth without any of that.
No clinic. No midwife. No clean water. No way to stop a hemorrhage. No one who knows what to do if the baby is turned the wrong way or the mother's blood pressure spikes or labour goes on too long.
This is the reality for millions of women in Sierra Leone.
Every two minutes, a woman loses her life in the process of giving birth somewhere in the world. And Sierra Leone sits at the epicentre of that crisis. It is, by many measures, the most dangerous place on earth to have a baby.
But it doesn't have to be.
Because Freedom Tree has already proven what is possible. Three clinics. Thousands of safe births. Mothers walking out of facilities with babies in their arms instead of being carried out themselves.
The difference between life and death, in many of these cases, is simply the presence of a trained person and a safe place to give birth.
That is all. That is everything.
What if giving birth didn't mean risking your life?
In Freedom Tree's clinics, it doesn't have to.
Fund a safe birth. Give to Freedom Tree today.