Hails from Dadaab as well. At 38 years old, she counts herself lucky to have found AMREF after living with OF for ten years and four years of trying to get access to the ‘Flying Doctors’. ‘I came from Somalia ten years ago and I am married (at 17 years)’. Mulki was lucky to have attained six years of primary school education, unlike many of her counterparts from Kenya and Somalia.  ‘I delivered my three children at home without many problems. However the fourth born took a long time to come and when it happened, the baby died at birth; then I noticed my urine was leaking urine continuously.  We had not encountered such a problem and wished it away and life continued as normal though for me it was not easy, with three children to take care of at a very tender age, below 20 year. I got three more children and four abortions after OF. I have come to realise that the problem came about as a result of giving birth at home on my own without any help’.

‘I did not bother to go to hospital as I had no idea the condition could be cured, instead I lived in denial for many years till now.  We heard it in the camps and we went to the CARE office, which organised the trip to this camp through the UNHCR. You are not allowed to travel alone out of the camps and we are at their mercies to access health care.  I have faith that this will come to an end’.

Asked if she received information on a camp that was held last year in November through Outreach, she informed us that the information did not reach most of the women and requested that next time the news be announced through radio. ‘There are many women we left behind and they are now calling us, saying how lucky we are to have met the doctors’.