Maternity package for an undocumented mother

Second-hand baby clothes, toys and new care supplies. These packages are distributed at the Global Clinic to pregnant women who are undocumented, i.e. living in Finland without a legal residence permit. Run by volunteers, the clinic provides help for non-urgent health problems and health advice. In the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, for example, pregnant undocumented women receive maternity and child health clinic services but are not entitled to Kela’s official maternity packages. Therefore, volunteers assemble these unofficial maternity packages in order to help them in the first months with the baby. This maternity package is from 2019.

IT108. Photo: Ilari Järvinen, 2020.