Akiiki
“I am sitting on my sofa with a cup of coffee. I have to write a report about the new Outreach Clinic in Kaboya but I’m not sure where to start….it is not all about figures and statistics. Perhaps we should start from the beginning…”
Tonya
Tonya is a village located in the Hoima District, along the Eastern shores of Lake Albert and lies approximately 45 km from Hoima town. For the two years up until June 2015 Tonya had no midwife. Now with the arrival of Viola, the new midwife, the government have increased the clinic to a Health Centre III.
Runga Outreach Clinic
The outreach clinic had been running for a few years previous, led by Grace and Barongo, and mainly offering HIV screening to the village and antenatal bookings for pregnant women. The funding run out a couple of years ago, which is when MAMA first got involved with it.