Kenya's only breastmilk bank, located at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi, provides life-saving donated breastmilk to premature babies, who often cannot receive milk from their mothers. Established in 2019 with support from British aid money and PATH, the facility addresses the challenges of formula feeding in environments with contaminated water and limited access to nutritious alternatives.

• Approximately 134,000 premature babies are born annually in Kenya.
• Doctor Muthoni Ogola heads the program, highlighting that human milk leads to faster growth compared to formula.
• The milk bank faces a funding shortfall, limiting its ability to provide milk to mothers outside the facility, especially those in informal settlements without proper storage.