Motorbike Ambulance arrives at Tunguli

Tunguli Clinic is a long way from anywhere, and, in the rainy season, gets cut off completely when the rain is heavy. For the more Aspergic amongst the blog readers, here is the map reference:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Tunguli,+Tanzania/@-5.925458,36.1973829,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x1845607552800639:0x72194f8d66673032!8m2!3d-5.927042!4d37.31876

The nearest small town is 50k away on awful roads, and so Tunguli residents rarely make the trip, and subsist on what they can produce, and what the local village shops can supply.

But they do have a health centre with beds ...

... albeit with only one doctor, and, until recently no transport. Women needing complex obstetric care or caesarean would not only have to try to find the money for hospital care, (£80 - 6 months' wages for an unskilled worker), but also some means of getting there.

For these and other reasons, Tunguli was chosen as the epicentre of the Tushikamane project. Eleven women's groups have now grown up in the surrounding hamlets, and subsequent posts will excitingly show what is beginning to emerge.

However, due to the huge generosity of supporters of 'Mission Morogoro', and of one sponsor in particular, the village now has a motorbike ambulance!

This will save lives, not only of pregnant women and their babies, but also of children who can get very ill very quickly from malaria, meningitis, dysentery, and other endemic diseases.

Thank you!!!!