During the rain seasons in Malawi most of the roads in the rural areas are not passerble and this resulted in many deaths especially pregnant mothers who are about to give birth. Rivers become not friendly at this time as it carries lot of waters from the up stream. Recently Malawi has just been hit by the floods especially in the southern part of the country whereby people their depend of farming and fishing. The floods has resulted in a number of water born diseases like Cholera, malaria and Typhoid fever just to mention a few. The roads are so poor that even a bridge being constructed in these roads they can not look good. The roads are of the most esential things which governments needs to look on. If we want to reduce maternal death we should also look the ways what couses the death so poor road network in Africa also contributed much greater on the maternal death. Like this small road above people used it to cross from one village to another and during the heavy rains these small sticks get soft and people can not use it, Young children can not cross to other side of the village where there is school at the end we see people suffer, lots of death and children not going to school. We need realy to mobilise ourselves to force our leaders to look onto these type of things.

Kondwani Thindwa (Malawi)