December 2015 Featured Photographer of the Month

Using phones to help mothers in Samburu, Kenya

Kevin Ouma Nyakwada | Kenya

Samburu county in Kenya, East Africa, is one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the country. Access to healthcare facilities is still limited for most people who live here, leading to high rates of death of mother and/or child during pregnancy. Safaricom, a leading Telecom in Kenya through its CSR arm, MPESA Foundation, together with the Ministry of Health Kenya, has provided nurses with smart phones that have an app which is used to get data from patients during prenatal checkups.This has made it easy to access the mother's history at any time, making it easy during child bearing and progressively reducing the number of deaths at birth for newborns and mothers.

MPESA foundation

On Screen productions Kenya

I believe that all humans have a right to good healthcare and no woman in the 21st century should die in child birth.

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