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Solar tracking bracelets protect nomadic Kenyan mothers and babies

As health workers approached a huge acacia tree that would provide shade for a makeshift clinic, more than 50 women and 30 children were already waiting for them.

Local enthusiasm for the monthly check-up made the habitual blasts on the car horn unnecessary in Yabalo Godha village, 40 minutes’ drive from the market town of Moyale on Kenya’s northern border with Ethiopia.

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