This is Beauty. Beauty is 22 years old, and works at Kivulini Maternity Centre as a nurse / midwife. She joined Maternity Africa in April 2018 - her first job after being a student. Beauty recently finished a busy nightshift at 7am on the maternity ward. However, the...

Midwife Celine Rousseau was essential in developing the clinical team at Kivulini Maternity Centre, Tanzania over the last 12 months, sharing her clinical experience and knowledge. As Mentor Midwife Celine co-created the skills development programme for all clinical...

Bertha lives in a village not far away from Kivulini Maternity Centre here in rural Tanzania. She was in the bus travelling along the main road close by to come and give birth to her seventh child when she went into contractions. The other passengers told the driver...

At Maternity Africa, learning from each other is what we do. Yesterday evening, we said goodbye to Miriam, who was with us for two months at Kivulini Maternity Centre, volunteering as a midwife from Germany. A few weeks ago, we said farewell to Celine, also a...

Today, International Day of Happiness, we gladly celebrate Alfred. Alfred completed his internship here at Kivulini Maternity Centre in Northern Tanzania, where he obtained further valuable practical experience. Alfred states that, during his practical skills...

Shabani and Oshumu joined Maternity Africa six months ago to train to become midwives.  We were thrilled that, after passing all aspects of theory and practical assessments, they both qualified as midwives.  These hardworking gentlemen particularly enjoyed working in...

How lovely to celebrate International Women's Day, warmly welcoming more than 25 ladies who arrived this week. Kivulini Maternity Centre is about to commence its March 2019 fistula 'camp' - a period of intense activities of preparing almost 40 patients for surgery,...