Tanzania, May 18 -- Dar es Salaam. Rosemary When Olivia Fabian Rweganwa fell ill, her mother never imagined the struggle ahead would cost her almost everything she owned.

Yet for Rosemary Mtiro (pictured), a 63-year-old farmer from Magu District in Mwanza Region, no sacrifice was too great if it meant saving her daughter's life.

Over four painful years, Rosemary sold her land, exhausted family savings and eventually gave away one of her kidneys in a desperate effort to keep her 26-year-old daughter alive.

Today, mother and daughter are recovering side by side after a successful kidney transplant at Muhimbili National Hospital, carried out on May 9, 2026.

But their journey began long before the operating theatre.

Rosemary recalls the ...