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Majida is 20 and pregnant with her second child. She lives in Rakhine State, Myanmar, in a house shared by 15 people. Her husband drives a rickshaw and sometimes fishes at sea. The family rarely earns enough daily to make ends meet ⬇️

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"I have always been worried," she said. "Will I be able to deliver safely? If I cannot eat nutritious food, will it affect the baby?" She went for her first check-up at a clinic run by the IRC, with her sister-in-law Husana — also 20, also expecting ⬇️

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Both were examined, given supplements, and told their babies are doing well. The care is free, which is why they can go at all. Supported by the Myanmar Humanitarian Fund, the clinic offers primary, maternal and child, sexual and reproductive, and mental health care.