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Uchembere Wabwino

About us

Giving the people the care they deserve

Uchembere Wabwino Maternity provides specialised sexual reproductive health services at a subsidised rate in Mzuzu, and free services in rural communities of Mzimba District. We opened on 22 August 2019, after inspection and accreditation by Malawi’s nursing, medical and pharmacy regulators.

We offer a comprehensive package of services: maternal and child health, paediatric and under-five care, outpatient medical care, family planning, diagnostic tests, and sexual reproductive health education and counselling for young people in secondary schools.

To provide a safe place for delivery for women, empower young people through sexual reproductive health education and counselling, and improve access to information and family planning services across Malawi, regardless of where they live.

Lucy Msukwa, founder of Uchembere Wabwino
“I lost my mother to pregnancy complications. In 2019 I started Uchembere Wabwino because my wish was to create a safe place for pregnant women to deliver.”
Lucy Msukwa, Registered Nurse Midwife and Founder. She has conducted over 6,000 safe deliveries.Read her message
Women and children gathered outside a rural health post for an outreach clinic
A health surveillance assistant giving a woman the tetanus toxoid vaccine during outreachA health surveillance assistant documenting data at a rural outreach clinic

Community outreach

Reaching out to the last mile

Once a month our team drives to Chankhanga, Elangeni and Sonda, hard-to-reach communities in rural Mzimba where the nearest health facility is very far away. We run these outreach clinics under the Mzimba North District Health Office, using our own transport.

On average, each monthly outreach visit serves 364 children and 184 mothers. Women can now have advanced care such as ultrasound scanning within their reach, with prompt referral to a higher facility whenever there is a need.

We also bring sexual and reproductive health education to secondary schools through our Uche Youth for Change team, and run girl-empowerment, menstrual-hygiene and nutrition programmes.

Our impact

More women, more children, more families reached

Impact and annual reports

Clients served each year

Total clients reached through clinic services and outreach.

  1. 8,1502022
  2. 10,4002023
  3. 13,2502024
  4. 16,5002025

April 2025 – March 2026

Highlights from our annual report

  • A functional maternity theatre, expanding the clinical services we can offer
  • Six new clinical staff
  • Partnerships with over 40 stakeholders
  • 29 people trained in safeguarding and SRHR approaches
  • Our Voices for Change youth SRHR project, supported by Hivos
  • Baseline evidence generated to guide our programmes
Download the 2025–2026 annual report (PDF, 22 MB)

In partnership with

  • Segal Family Foundation
  • United States African Development Foundation
  • Ministry of Health, Malawi
  • HIVOS people unlimited
  • Growth Accelerator Malawi
  • Social Impact Incubator Malawi
  • DAK Foundation
  • Partners for Equity
  • Medi Tech Trust

Donate now to light up hope

Your support helps us bring quality care closer to every mother and newborn. To make a donation, email or WhatsApp/call us.

Every mother. Every newborn. Every life matters.

Contact us

We’re open 24 hours

Plot 14122838, New Katoto, off the M1 Road, near the Reserve Bank of Malawi, Mzuzu

P.O. Box 795, Mzuzu, Malawi