Understanding the Plight of Murang’a Mothers as Reflected in Current Research

While mothers play a fundamentally vital role in ensuring that families are socially and financially sustainable developing countries such as Kenya are struggling with providing proper healthcare and enhancing their financial welfare. Considering the challenges that affect Kenya which include, but not limited to poor economic performance, the dwindling of the agricultural industry that has been the backbone of the country’s economy, poor healthcare, corruption, and cultural barriers that limit women freedom for self-determination, the welfare of mothers continues to worsen. Nonetheless, understanding and acknowledging these challenges would play an important role when it comes to developing a conceptual model that can be applied to reinstate the dignity of women and support them through the often-underestimated role of motherhood. This concept paper relies upon credible academic, professional, and institutional research to identify economic, social, cultural, and personal issues that affect mothers especially within Murang’a county, aiming to use such findings to develop a model that could help improve the experiences of women during motherhood.