Davos#2: “Women are giving birth at the side of the roads like animals because there are no hospitals”

Kitgum is a city in northern Uganda. Bordering a war weary Sudan whose Comprehensive Peace Agreement hangs on threads. Near to Rwanda which had a fierce civil war. Kitgum, itself a place that has hosted a war and is seemingly coming through trying to rebuild.

I sat in car chatting to man, David L, who will be involved at the Refugee Run that we are together involved in at the World Economic Forum’s Davos conference. A gathering of the world’s elite. He is telling me of his home in Kitgum. He has great vision for the place and so desperately wants transformation. He talks of a need for a hospital and utters the words as we approach the prestigious ski resort town: “Women are giving birth at the side of the roads like animals because there are no hospitals”