Uganda: Solar Power Spreads Smiles On Faces of Rural Expectant Mothers

On the night of September 4, 2002, Ruth Kyakuwa could not take it anymore. Kyakuwa, 15, stood at the crossroads to joining the countless number of teenage mothers in Uganda, or worse, women who die while ushering in new life into the world.

The timing of her unpredictable labour pains was the worst; coming in the dead of night.

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