Luwero Clinic; (more pictures in the photo gallery)
The clinic is situated at the 'African Outreach Academy' Primary School in Luwero, Uganda. This is a poor rural region which has suffered greatly over the years from war and disease. There are around 1,000 children at the school including 200 who are full time boarders, many are orphaned by one or both parents, but all of them come from poor backgrounds.
Our small appeal group started to raise funds in the spring of 1999 and by the following year we had sufficient funds to have plans drawn up for the building pictured above and to have it built and opened by November 2000.
Our main challenge, is to cope with the high number of Malaria cases in the area and to try and reduce the impact of this devastating disease which is still the one most responsible for deaths in Africa. We also seek to treat whatever else comes along which is illustrated in the table below. Recently there was a national Conjunctivitis epidemic in Uganda. The clinic was well placed to deal with this to reduce suffering and the potential for more serious consequences resulting from this disease, such as blindness.
The clinic is situated at the 'African Outreach Academy' Primary School in Luwero, Uganda. This is a poor rural region which has suffered greatly over the years from war and disease. There are around 1,000 children at the school including 200 who are full time boarders, many are orphaned by one or both parents, but all of them come from poor backgrounds.
Our small appeal group started to raise funds in the spring of 1999 and by the following year we had sufficient funds to have plans drawn up for the building pictured above and to have it built and opened by November 2000.
Our main challenge, is to cope with the high number of Malaria cases in the area and to try and reduce the impact of this devastating disease which is still the one most responsible for deaths in Africa. We also seek to treat whatever else comes along which is illustrated in the table below. Recently there was a national Conjunctivitis epidemic in Uganda. The clinic was well placed to deal with this to reduce suffering and the potential for more serious consequences resulting from this disease, such as blindness.
