At nine months pregnant, Omnia left her home and everything she knew behind to escape the violent conflict engulfing Sudan’s capital Khartoum.

Although traveling while pregnant was dangerous, she felt she had no choice. Roiling insecurity, active shooting, and the looting and destruction of health facilities meant she hadn’t been able to see a doctor in weeks.

“I lost everything in the war,” Omnia said. “I did not want to lose my unborn child too.”

It was an arduous five-day journey, but in early June, she arrived in Port Sudan, on the coast of the Red Sea state. Omnia made it to the UNFPA-supported Port Sudan Teaching Hospital, where she went into labor. She had a difficult pregnancy and faced complications with the delivery, but the health staff helped her to give birth by C-section to a healthy baby girl named Lana.

“Now I see her smiling again, thanks to the doctors and midwives in the hospital,” said Omnia’s mother.

Your gifts deliver lifesaving care and trained midwives to support new mothers like Omnia. But with the situation in Sudan escalating, millions more vulnerable pregnant women are counting on you to step up:

Rush an emergency gift to ensure safe births for pregnant women impacted by warfare in Sudan and around the world:

There are over 260,000 pregnant women in Sudan, 90,000 of whom are expected to give birth in the next three months. All these women and girls need immediate access to essential reproductive health services, as do more than 4 million women and girls caught up in the conflict, who are at heightened risk of sexual abuse and exploitation.

But as the bloodshed continues, more and more health centers have been forced to close.

At least 46 health facilities across Sudan have come under attack, and nearly two-thirds are no longer functioning.

The Port Sudan Teaching Hospital is the state’s only maternity hospital and serves 1.6 million people. Your gifts deliver medical equipment, supplies and staff training to ensure displaced pregnant women and girls arriving in Port Sudan from across the country can give birth safely.

Emergency gifts are needed to fund our Sudan humanitarian response plan — to reach more women like Omnia with critical reproductive health and childbirth services before it’s too late.

Please: Make an emergency gift to deliver lifesaving care to women and girls in Sudan and beyond. Millions remain at risk as violence escalates and health centers shut their doors.

Thank you for always being there for women and girls.

— USA for UNFPA