2022
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Named person(s)
Mary Namugalu, Elizabeth Adikini, Jude Obbo, Favour Nyawere
Date photo taken
15 February 2022
Partner organization
Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative (ROM)
City/Town
Kampala
Province/State
Kampala
Country of origin
Uganda
Region
Africa
Photo credit
MCC Photo/Matthew Lester
Themes
Health
Description
Clinician Mary Namugalu (polka dot dress) counsels Elizabeth Adikini, holding her daughter 4-month-old Favour Nyawere, and her husband Jude Obbo at the ROM clinic in Kampala, Uganda.
Personal/Project impact
A mother of six children, ages 4 months to 12 years, Elizabeth Adikini came to ROM for support during the pregnancy, delivery and development of her sixth baby. Even though she has had other children, she still learned more about how to keep her baby healthy through good hygiene and nutrition. As a result, she said, her baby “is not regularly falling sick compared to her other children.” She also received a MAMA kit, with all the supplies needed to deliver her baby in the hospital. (In Uganda, parents need to provide birthing supplies.) “The MAMA kit was so important because we lacked the money to purchase the kit,” she said.
Jude Obbo (husband) Jude Obbo has learned to be an active parent along with his wife, Elizabeth Adikini “I do it because the family is mine. And the responsibility in the house is mine.” ROM encourages the father’s involvement and offers the couple counseling on birth control. .
Mothers learn the importance of strengthening their own health with good nutrition and improved hygiene before and after the baby is born. Babies are born without HIV to mothers who have HIV but are taking anti-retrovirals. Through the Mother to Mother community health workers, mothers improve the cleanliness of their home to protect the health of the family. Parents get health care too while the baby is in ROM’s care
Project Summary
MCC supports Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative (ROM)’s maternal and child health services for parents in the slum areas of Nakawa Division of the Kampala District, Uganda.
The most vulnerable mothers, including those who are HIV positive and those who do not have HIV, but are experiencing extreme poverty receive antenatal and postnatal care and MAMA kits of supplies needed to deliver a baby in a public hospital. Children also receive continued health care and vaccines until they are two years old. Parents’ emotional and physical health is also monitored. The Mother to Mother community health workers are mentors for each family.