1.What SDGs does your project target? What might be reasonable indicators for those SDGs?

Sustainable development goals are known as the global goals that will lead to an achievement of overall sustainability in the world. There are 17 different goals, all of which have a general purpose of bettering the world. Our project is the Ukweli Test Strips in which we will be implementing a three-parameter urinalysis test strip into the healthcare system in Sierra Leone in order to lower the mortality rate of pregnant women. Our project targets the SDG of good health and wellbeing. We are focusing on the health of women in this country given that they necessarily do not have the resources to get the help they need to go through a safe pregnancy and/or live birth. Women have to endure a difficult journey to get tested for treatable and manageable problems, such as UTIs and preeclampsia. The journey to getting tested for both of these is difficult in that there will be a necessary journey to get tested, which can often be a waste of money and time they do not necessarily have. The trek requires a form of transportation to the clinic, money to pay for the screening, money to get back from the clinic, and the affordability to not work in order to take the time out to go get tested. All of these measures together make it very difficult for the women to follow through with getting the help they need. 

Our project is trying to alleviate these issues by implementing a cheaper, more accessible way to get treated. Throughout the current case studies on the situation in Sierra Leone, one in seventeen women die during childbirth given that early intervention on UTIs and preeclampsia is not common. We will be distributing these three-parameter test strips to health clinics in districts so that the trek to get help will be significantly less inconvenient than how it currently is; hopefully, this will lead to women becoming aware of what is going on within their body and will get the treatment they need. These are reasonable indicators for the goal of aiding in good health and well-being in Sierra Leone as women will be able to take matters into their own hands and be able to get early intervention on their health issues to help ensure a safe pregnancy.