Hope works for a UK aid supported family planning clinic, Banja La Mtsogolo which means "Future Families." She was originally a client at the clinic and then became a Community Health Worker.

"My advice is that many more women should have access so they can help with the development of our country. When women have family planning they are able to have a small scale business, they can operate freely and have a lot of time to concentrate on the affairs of their children, and money for their school fees."

"I have one daughter myself, Grace. My hopes for my daughter are that she has a bright future. She can depend on herself and become a doctor or a nurse."

Family planning allows more women to take on professional careers, helping themselves and their families to work their way out of poverty.

Background

On 11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host a groundbreaking summit to cut in half the current number of women and girls in the world’s poorest countries without access to contraception, but who wish to avoid pregnancy or space their children.

Every woman and girl deserves the opportunity to to determine her own future. Contraceptives give the world's poorest women the power to decide if and when to have another child.

Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/changinglives

To follow the London Summit on Family Planning visit www.dfid.gov.uk/fpsummit

Picture: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development

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