In April 2024, women and children waited in the shade at Muebe in Mozambique's Zambezia Province for a mobile health brigade. UNICEF recorded that when technician Oscar arrived by motorbike carrying vaccines, mothers formed a physical queue with their yellow vaccination cards. A monthly visit typically immunised between 80 and 90 children.
Without the brigade, families would have to walk about 15 kilometres to the nearest health facility, a six-hour round trip. The shaded line was therefore more than a wait at a counter. It was a practical order for sharing a rare visit in which refrigerated vaccines reached a remote community, one child and one card at a time.