{"id":6807,"date":"2015-04-04T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=6807"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:58:43","slug":"born-at-home-in-kenya-without-a-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/born-at-home-in-kenya-without-a-birth-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Born at home in Kenya without a birth certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kenya<\/a>Featured in the adjacent picture is a 28 years of age Kenyan woman (her name is Millicent) and her sons Robert (left) and Ben (right). The boys are holding up their Kenyan birth certificates (government-issued).<\/p>\n

Millicent could not financially afford to give birth at a hospital and her boys were delivered at home.<\/p>\n

When a baby is born at a hospital in Kenya the mother will receive a tangible notification from the hospital regarding the birth.<\/p>\n

Many families in Kenya cannot financially afford to have their children delivered at hospitals and the government is not notified when children are born at\u00a0home.\u00a0It appears that these children often go without birth certificates and\/or that their parents face significant challenges while attempting to obtaining a certificate for their child.<\/p>\n

Read more about Millicent and the obstacles that she and her children faced in 2012 which were reported in the article feature below:<\/p>\n