Olanya Jackeline Grace has been a midwife for 22 years. She initially worked at Lacore Hospital for 3 years after which she joined the government system. She likes her work and likes seeing babies born healthy and alive, to healthy mothers. She has been happy with the...
Akello Monica is an enrolled midwife, and mother of two children. She studied in Kalongo Midwifery School, attaining her certificate in 2010. She initially started working as a midwife, then joined AIDS relief, after which she joined the government system in 2012 as a...
Apiyo Susan has been a midwife since 2011. She is on staff at Pabwo Health Centre III, located in a distant rural area. She attended her first STEP-UP training in Helping Babies Breathe in 2013. She became proficient and was later chosen to be a trainer of other...
Mary Auma Alai, MBchB, MMED, Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, is known to STEP-UP and her fellow Ugandans as “Dr. Maria.” She has been on the board of SUU since the first US team trip in 2010. Trained in general internal medicine, she has specific experience...
Okello Patrick Onguti has been with STEP-UP since its beginning in 2010. He is happily married to Auma Mary Alai (Dr. Maria, also a board member of SUU) and enjoys their family in Gulu: their son, daughter and three nephews. He became involved after meeting Joshua...
