ROTARY DONATES AMBULANCES TO SAVE LIVES

Giving Digest: Rotary International is a worldwide organization of people who raise money and other resources to serve their communities. One of Rotary International's thematic areas is to promote maternal and child health. In line with that theme, Rotarians in Uganda have procured a total of twenty-eight tricycle village ambulances to support vulnerable expectant mothers in rural communities to access health services with ease.

The equipment will be distributed in different regions across the country. According to the Immediate Past District Governor of D9213, Mike Kennedy Sebalu, a gap was identified that many mothers were losing their lives because they could not easily be transported to health facilities during the time that they needed to be delivered.

Sebalu further said; "Mothers could bleed to death. Some could not get attention on time. So, the idea of getting these village ambulances is to bridge the gap of transportation. A means that can navigate our bad roads and be able to deliver mothers in a good time to receive technical medical attention from health facilities.”

The village ambulances according to Sebalu, have been donated by Rotarians together with their friends through a global grant, and their idea is to ensure that they reduce the deaths and threat of losing life because of transportation.

The work that Rotary does further buttresses the Ubuntu values of Social Justice which entail working towards equality and fairness for all people for the common good.

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