Every two minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth.

Not because the world does not know how to save her.

But because too often, the care does not reach her in time.

For Isra Chaker, that reality is not just heartbreaking. It is unacceptable.

Through Every Pregnancy, Chaker is building a maternal and newborn health movement focused on one urgent mission: helping mothers and babies survive pregnancy, birth, and the earliest days of life.

Since the launch of the For Mama campaign in 2024, Every Pregnancy has mobilized nearly $130 million for mothers and babies globally. In Ramadan 2026 alone, the campaign mobilized $91 million in 30 days, bringing together more than 192,000 donors, 50+ frontline organizations, and work across 20+ countries.

The numbers are powerful.

But the story is not really about money.

It is about what organized giving can make possible when a community decides that mothers should not keep dying from preventable causes.

From Human Rights To Maternal Health

Before founding Every Pregnancy, Chaker’s work was rooted in human rights.

She spent her career advocating for communities whose voices were often missing from the rooms where decisions were made. Her focus was always on justice, dignity, and changing systems that failed the people most impacted by them.

Maternal health was not the path she expected.

Then motherhood changed everything.

After becoming a mother herself and experiencing a challenging pregnancy and birth, Chaker began to see maternal health not only as a healthcare issue, but as a human rights issue.

Mothers were dying. Babies were being lost. Families were grieving outcomes that could often have been prevented with access to known, cost-effective care.

That question stayed with her:

If the solutions already exist, why are mothers still dying?

A Solvable Crisis

The tragedy of maternal mortality is that so much of it is preventable.

Skilled birth support, emergency obstetric care, trained health workers, safe delivery services, transportation, blood access, postpartum care, and basic health education can change outcomes dramatically.

The issue is not always the absence of solutions.

It is access.

It is funding.

It is whether the right support reaches the right mother at the right time.

That is the gap Every Pregnancy is working to close.

Mobilizing Giving Around Mothers And Babies

Chaker saw something powerful in the Muslim community: generosity.

Giving is already built into Muslim life through zakat, sadaqah, Ramadan campaigns, and community support. But maternal and newborn health had not always received the same level of organized attention.

Every Pregnancy helped change that.

The movement brings together faith-inspired giving, philanthropy, frontline partners, and maternal health programs around a mission that is urgent and measurable.

Its public impact reporting shows the scale of what this work can support: mothers receiving maternal health services from skilled providers, newborn health services delivered, health workers trained, emergency referrals facilitated, and women reached with education, consultations, and counseling.

These are not just statistics.

They are mothers reaching care.

Babies getting a safer start.

Health workers being trained.

Clinics becoming better prepared for the next emergency.

Not Charity. Systems Work.

One of Chaker’s clearest beliefs is that mothers in vulnerable and crisis-affected communities are not helpless.

They are resilient women fighting for their families in some of the hardest conditions imaginable.

The problem is not their strength.

The problem is the systems around them.

That is why Every Pregnancy works with frontline organizations already rooted in the communities they serve. A mother in Gaza may face different realities than a mother in Pakistan, Nigeria, Syria, Afghanistan, or Bangladesh. Local trust matters. Cultural knowledge matters. Community leadership matters.

The strongest solutions are not parachuted in.

They are built with the people closest to the work.

Faith, Leadership, And The Founder Lesson

As a Muslim woman founder, Chaker’s faith deeply shapes how she leads.

She describes faith as her anchor. It grounds her in purpose, reminds her of accountability, and shapes her belief that protecting mothers and babies is a matter of justice, mercy, and service.

Her advice to Muslim founders is simple: do not duplicate what already exists just to create something new. Strengthen the work already happening. Learn from people closest to the problem. Collaborate before competing. Lead with warmth.

For Chaker, warmth is not weakness.

It is leadership.

People support leaders whose values they trust.

What Isra Chaker Is Proving

Every Pregnancy is proving that maternal health can become a major giving priority when the story is clear, the mission is urgent, and the model is built around collaboration.

It is proving that generosity becomes more powerful when it is organized.

It is proving that faith-inspired philanthropy can move beyond scattered donations into measurable, global impact.

And it is proving that mothers and babies should never be treated as a secondary cause.

Nearly $130 million mobilized.

Dozens of organizations united.

Thousands of mothers and newborns reached.

And still, the mission is far from finished.

Because every two minutes, a mother’s life is at risk.

Isra Chaker is building the movement trying to make sure she survives.