Blog Posts

Above: Olawunmi in front of her salon Ola-Boss in Balogun, Ikeja, where she sells cosmetics and weaves. When Olawunmi Adeyemo and her husband got married, they decided they wanted two children. For a while, everything went according to plan. Six years ago, they had their first child. Three years later, […]

Above: Zulekha in her Dhanak clinic, where she serves her community in Pakistan with multiple contraceptive options. The story of the indefatigable Zulekha Baloch is a case study in perseverance. Since she was a child, Zulekha nurtured a dream of working in health despite unending obstacles. The first hurdle was […]

Above: Vikash (left), Ragini (right), and their two children (center) have their photo taken outside one of DKT Janani’s Surya Clinics When Vikash and Ragini Kumari got married in 2013, they decided they wanted just two children, no more. Their plan was implemented flawlessly, thanks to critical support from DKT […]

Above: Selam shares how DKT Ethiopia’s Wise-Up HIV drop-in centers have helped her save money for her future (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). It was an unfortunate series of events that led Selam Abebe (not her real name) down a path to commercial sex work. At the age of six, her mother […]

Above: Odogwu Anene Nkemdilim runs a small grocery store and opted for an IUD to take control over her reproductive and professional life. When they got married, Odogwu Anene Nkemdilim and her husband decided they would space their children five years apart. But after getting pregnant the second time when […]

Above: Ruqia Younas treats a young patient in her Dhanak clinic in Bhattiwala, Pakistan. Ruqia Younas earned her diploma in midwifery in 2011, excited to put her new skills to work and help the women and children of her village in Punjab Province, central Pakistan. But Ruqia didn’t have the […]

Above: Rani Devi, a Surya Health Promoter, talks to young women in her community about the benefits of family planning and is now seen as a reliable expert in sexual and reproductive health.  Her parents forced Rani Devi to drop out of school and marry when she was only 15 […]

As this unprecedented year comes to an end, read DKT's reflections on progress from the FP2020 movement.