Bukasakya Maternity Centre / CAUKIN Studio

Spotlight on Africa’s brief was to build and operate a Maternity Centre in order to reduce one of the world’s highest Maternal Mortality Rates (“MMR”) in the Bukasakya sub-county of Mbale, Eastern Uganda. Women are 56 times more likely to die in childbirth in the Mbale District of Uganda than in the UK. These extraordinary rates of mortality would be significantly reduced and preventable deaths would be eradicated by the provision of a Maternity Centre, which is now urgently needed.