While the world has seen improved health and long life, many people in the third world countries continue to live under very poor health conditions. Rural areas in Uganda are specific areas where people don’t have sufficient health services and if they exist they are expensive.

Most Ugandans in Rural areas live on subsistence farming and over the years with changing weather patterns and over usage of the land what they produce for consumption has been losing value. The pressure of the population growth has also limited some people to having one meal a day and depending on products like maize. This has made people in the rural parts of Uganda vulnerable to diseases. Children are malnourished and many adults too do not consume the number of calories they are supposed to consume per day. This is making people in rural areas vulnerable to diseases. Common diseases are malaria, respiratory infections, bacterial infections and increasingly diabetes among others.

Most women in rural areas give birth to children without any medical support and are therefore susceptible to opportunistic infections. Because of low incomes and in some cases absence of incomes, many people in the rural areas never get medical attention. Most women in Iganga district give birth from their homes because of the distances they have to walk to go to the available health facilities.

The AKB Memorial hospital as a community based organization will look out to provide low cost solutions to the people in the community.

The late Azena Kitimbo Balunywa was a phenomenal woman who touched the lives of thousands of people whom she lived with, came to know or met. An amazing woman of courage and discipline, she took interest in people, helping them solve their problems, and took time to discipline those who came into her life.

She was particularly helpful to women, guiding them, counseling them, and assisting them in their lives, to enable them transform themselves. It was her wish that she is able to do something to improve the welfare of the disadvantaged people.

She helped numerous women to improve their health and more specifically supported widows and old people who did not have any support. Upon her death, the women in the community where she lived felt they had lost somebody who was there for them in their times of need.

It is with this mind, that the AKB maternity Home was founded.