In South Kamagambo, it’s not uncommon for families to travel 10 kilometers on foot to the nearest health facility. Of Lwala’s four implementation sites, communities here are the most remote. When Lwala began to work in South Kamagambo in 2019, health indicators reflected this challenge–many women gave birth at home, nearly one-third of children were […]
Samwel “Onyango” Ogada has worked for Lwala Community Alliance since 2012. Born and raised in the village of Lwala, Onyango grew up a short walk from where our hospital now sits. For the first half of his life, before the hospital existed, Onyango experienced first-hand what life was like without access to health care. As […]
Most health providers have a story about obstetric hemorrhage that stays with them. For Carren Siele, the Head Nurse at Lwala Community Hospital, it was in 2017, when a woman came to deliver late at night. She began to bleed, and the facility didn’t have the right tools or enough blood for a transfusion. Carren […]
