Rotary's Growing Maternal & Child Health Initiative in Uganda

Richard is part of Bulamu Healthcare, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to treat the sick and strengthen health systems serving Africans most in need. 

In the presentation, Richard will share that newborn mortality is the number one cause of death in Uganda, with maternal mortality also a major problem.  He will discuss how a group of 20+ Rotary clubs in Uganda and the U.S. are working to equip and provide training leading to better newborn and maternal care for more than 60 maternity facilities throughout Uganda that deliver more than 50,000 babies per year.

About Richard Siegler:

Richard Siegler is a humanitarian who has helped to lead multiple organizations in East and West Africa since 2004. After college, from 2004 to 2007, Richard served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Benin. While in Benin, he raised funding and built a medical clinic in a rural area of 25,000 people that lacked access to health care. After earning a master's degree at UC-Davis, Richard moved to Rwanda as a university lecturer and Fulbright Scholar. He then co-founded the Bridge2Rwanda Scholars program, based in Kigali, which he led from 2011 to 2017. Since 2011, this program has successfully prepared more than 350 outstanding high school graduates from Rwanda, Burundi, DR-Congo, and South Sudan. These high-achieving African students have now accepted $80 million in full university scholarships to the U.S., a more than 10x increase compared to the previous decade. Today, as CEO of Bulamu Healthcare, Richard leads a team of Ugandan managers and partners with the mission to transform healthcare for the rural poor in Africa. Since 2016, Bulamu's teams have provided care free of charge to more than 300,000 general medicine and Maternal and Child Health patients. Bulamu has treated and supported care for more than 10,000 surgery patients, and more, all with a budget of about $1.7 million per year.