Community Health Volunteers reduce maternal and child deaths

Mary Rabera, a community health volunteer (right) with her host Damaris Moraa. Rabera had visited Moraa at her Bogitaa village home in Bonchari to check on the progress of her pregnancy. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]

Mary Rabera strolls into the homestead of Damaris Moraa at around noon. Rabera is a Community Health Volunteer (CHV) and she has come to check on Moraa who is expecting a baby.

After exchanging greetings, the two women sit under a shade before getting down to business.