The new mother and infant mortality rate in the remote “bush” village of Masindi, Uganda, Africa is between 12-20%, which means that 12-20 mothers/infants out of 100 die either at the time of giving birth or shortly thereafter.

We found these numbers to be alarming! In order to combat this, FOLA wrote a grant in 2019 to hire a “traveling” mid-wife, along with purchasing her needed birthing supplies.

Aside from being a midwife, she sees patients at the medical clinic FOLA opened there in 2017, teaches community health sensitization, pre-natal classes, and baby and early childhood development classes. The program has brought such dramatic results in this community that we have extended the mid-wife grant through 2020.