Uganda: Corsu - Light for Disabled

The joy of giving birth is immeasurable, but for Gaita Ephrance, a mother of four from Mubende district, it was an entirely different story.

Two weeks to her expected delivery date, a nurse at Mityana hospital told her that she would give birth to triplets. But when she gave birth, two of the babies had cleft lips and thus started the long journey of worries. Rejected by some of her close relatives and society, she was lucky that her husband, Kiiza Ronald was willing to fight for their babies.

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