For the pregnant mothers of Madudumizi, a remote village in the Kilosa District of Tanzania, everything changed when a brand new clinic, complete with a new deep borehole providing clean water on tap, opened.
“Before, we had to walk several hours to the next village to the clinic, with the journey including a river crossing that could be dangerous,” explains Salma, a pregnant mother who has three other children aged 24, two and five months. Mothers previously died due to the length of the journey, she adds, while others died traversing the river, which becomes violent in the rainy season.
