Liberia, April 20 -- PALAKWELLEH TOWN, Gbarpolu County - In the remote Guo Nwolailai District, women say they walk more than three hours to reach the only functioning clinic-an ordeal that has forced some pregnant mothers to give birth on the roadside or in the hands of untrained community members.

By Henry B. Gboluma, Jr., contributing writer

Now, they are pleading for urgent support to complete a self-initiated clinic project that has stalled for seven years, just steps away from serving more than 17,000 residents.

The unfinished facility, launched in 2017 by citizens of the district living in the Americas, stands zinc-roofed, plastered, and floored in Palakwelleh Town. But without iron doors, glass windows, a hand pump, placenta pit...