Mama Florence

Mama Florence is another one of the amazing people in Kamengo-ffunvu.
She is the village midwife.
She is in her 70s.
She takes care of her 3 grandchildren.
She delivers 3-5 babies a week.
She takes patients from surrounding villages too.
She does not get paid most of the time.
If there are complications, she pays for the mothers to go to Kampala to the hospital herself.
That means that a woman in labor must ride on the back of a motorcycle for about 45 minutes to get to a hospital.
She does it from the clinic she has behind her house. That is where she is standing.
It is about 10 feet by 10 feet.
It has a tin roof.
A hospital bed.
And Mama Florence.
An AMAZING woman.