A Mother's Story

Apio Rose was 22 years old and seven months pregnant when she first visited one of Acme Foundation's mobile health clinics in Soroti district. The nearest hospital was over 40 kilometers away, and the local health center had been without a midwife for six months.

"I had been feeling pain for weeks but I did not know where to go," Rose recalls. "When the mobile clinic came to our trading center, I walked there with my mother-in-law. The nurse examined me and said I needed to go to the hospital urgently."

The Acme Foundation health team identified signs of pre-eclampsia — dangerously high blood pressure that, if untreated, can lead to seizures and death during delivery. Our referral coordinator arranged emergency transport to Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, where Rose received treatment and delivered a healthy baby girl two weeks later.

"Without that mobile clinic, I do not know what would have happened," says Rose. "Now I tell every pregnant woman in my village to go for check-ups. The Acme Foundation people saved my life and my baby's life."

Why This Matters

Uganda's maternal mortality rate remains among the highest in the world, with rural women facing the greatest barriers to care. Acme Foundation's mobile clinics bring essential prenatal, postnatal, and reproductive health services directly to communities that would otherwise go without. In 2025, our clinics facilitated 2,400 referrals like Rose's — each one potentially life-saving.