by Ester Blass | Oct 28, 2019 | Kivulini, Story
My name is Ruth. I am 19 years old and my father has three wives. My mother has seven children. I didn’t go to school. My father chose a man to marry me. I was married at 18 years and soon became pregnant. My family was happy and okay with this. At 31 weeks of...
by Ester Blass | Oct 11, 2019 | Story
My name is Mary. I am 24 years old. I came from Emboreet. I am married and I gave birth to two babies. Only one is alive now, my five-year-old girl. I am educated to form four. I wanted to continue with school, but we did not have money so I could not. My parents...
by Ester Blass | Oct 1, 2019 | Kivulini, Staff, Story
Maternity Africa is delighted that Hosiana has become a member of our team. At the beginning of this year, Hosiana came here for an eight week placement during her course at Tengeru Institute of Community Development. We were so impressed by her commitment and love...
by Ester Blass | Sep 19, 2019 | Fistula patients, Kivulini, News, Staff, Story
My name is Joy. I am 18 years old. I married at 16 and got pregnant at 17. I went into labour, which lasted for four days without any kind of help. There is no health centre in our remote village so my mother called for a local midwife to come. She said there was no...
by Ester Blass | Sep 12, 2019 | Fistula patients, Story
After leaving Kivulini Maternity Centre where he treated many ladies for obstetric fistula, Dr Andrew Browning flew to South Sudan. There, he operated on 30 women with birth-related injuries including obstetric fistula. One of the ladies is called Pudol. She is from...
by Ester Blass | Sep 6, 2019 | Kivulini, Staff, Story
Zelly is the Head of our labour ward at Kivulini Maternity Centre. Affectionately, she is known by many as Mama. Mama Zelly has been a nurse and midwife for 32 years. She has been with us at Kivulini Maternity Centre since we opened in June 2018. Before that, she...
