Last Friday an opening ceremony was held for the new Mothers’ Waiting Home at Kisiizi. Moses, the hospital administrator was the master of ceremonies and speeches were made by the Rev Patrick, the hospital chaplain, Sister Sandra and Dr Francis Banya, representing the maternity department, Alan and Helen Smith, on behalf of Kisiizi Partners and…
Guderia was deserted by her husband last year. Left to fend for her five children without even a house to live in, she was given a tiny patch of land. The plot is too small to grow enough food to sustain the family but she was able to build a little mud hut to…
Kisiizi mothers’ waiting home, funded by donations to Kisiizi Partners, is well on the way to completion. When open it will house up to 24 high-risk mothers towards the end of pregnancy, enabling then to wait for labour in safety on the hospital site. Mothers’ waiting homes have a successful track record of improving both…
That was all it took to change Evas’ life… one minute she was speaking with the other fifty or so people travelling on the back of a lorry to attend a funeral, the next she was lying dazed on the ground with pain in her chest and leg and great trouble breathing. The lorry had…