For eight years, Blessings Iminza has lived without an identity. Each new day is a painful reminder that her dream of returning home remains just that—a dream.

She is not alone; thousands of children born to Kenyan mothers in Saudi Arabia share her fate, trapped in statelessness.

They are of mixed descent; they are unrecognised back in their mothers’ country while their fathers’ countries do not know they exist. Equally, the host country does not know they exist.