Amani Family Centre has brought over 1800 babies into the world, providing a crucial service to families in the most challenging of circumstances. Amani Family Centre is a birth centre founded by a Northern Irish trained Midwife and Paediatric nurse who founded the clinic from a small women’s group she had been running in Kanyogoga slum in Kampala.Kanyogoga slum is one of the city’s most densely populated slums about 5kms outside the city centre but provides care for mothers along an 8km strength of railway line along which the houses are situated, but also other city slums. It serves a population of around 40,000 people living in the slum from all tribes and districts in Uganda but also further afield such as Congo, Kenya, Rwanda to name a few.
The centre provides free skilled compassionate maternity and family support to these vulnerable families. This includes routine care, child delivery, emergency first aid, access to transport to other units as well as primary care. Amani Family Centre has brought over 1800 babies into the world, providing a crucial service to families in the most challenging of circumstances. The biggest challenges are similar to any other low resource community where daily life is dominated by unemployment, homelessness, drugs, alcohol abuse, illegal abortion and domestic violence but also increasing rates of incest, rape and infection of HIV in young women.
