A small but clean clinic sits on the edge of the village of Yua, located 14 hours away from Accra, Ghana (the capitol). The clinic consists of four rooms, an outside central gathering place and a similar building across the courtyard where a nurse and her carpenter husband live. One room is dedicated to mothers giving birth. The government supplied the building and simple wooden benches (like a picnic bench) for the women to lie on while they go through labor.

The clinic nurse explained to our KI president that many women choose to be on the floor when they deliver because it is less painful than the bench. Although she considered herself very lucky to have plastic covers so that the benches could stay continually clean, she admitted that some day they hoped to afford a mattress to put on the floor. The cost of a plastic covered mattress was about $25. The smiles on the women's faces when they learned that KI had bought one for the clinic; priceless. 
 
 
Benefits
At such a powerful moment, not only is the comfort of the mother giving birth enhanced, but it is a softer and “kinder” landing for the little person arriving.
 
 
How You Can Help
$25.00 will buy a plastic covered mattress for the birthing room