Remote village where residents risk their lives just to make a phone call

Amref intra-cultural nurse Lepantas Leshore (left) leads women in a reproductive health session in Pakase, Kajiado County. Mothers have died while giving birth at the hands of traditional birth attendants when that one phone call could not get to the nearest ambulance service provider. (Photo:Dann Okoth)

For a majority of Kenyans, making a phone call takes a simple touch of the button anywhere, any day, any time. But for locals in a village in Kajiado County, it is a matter of life and death.

In the small community of Pakase in lower Magadi, Kajiado, several people have lost their lives while climbing a mountain to make phone calls.