This meeting was prompted by a painful death of a woman in labour who could not reach the hospital in time to save her life because of distance and lack of quick means of transport. Before this meeting, elders had met students born in the area, who were on their holidays, to challenge them of their lack of action about the increasing deaths of children and pregnant mothers in the area. During this meeting, it was agreed that an action be taken by the village on the increasing deaths of women and children. The students had promised that if the whole community cooperated and collected some money, they could develop a response which involved the community itself to tackle the problem of maternal and infant deaths in the community.

The Village of Kapuwai represents many other similar villages in the region of Pallisa district in Uganda. Welcome to Kapuwai. We hope you will learn with us what it means to mobilise a community and enable them to solve some of the most difficult problems for rural communities in Uganda.