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Ruth at Touch Namuwongo

Posted in Suubi Trust, tagged on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Earlier this year one of our trustees, Ruth Gracey, had the opportunity to visit Uganda and meet some of the teams working on the various projects being supported by Suubi Trust.
Touch Namuwongo is an HIV/AIDS outreach programme reaching the communities living close to International Hospital Kampala (IHK). The team provide health education, voluntary counselling and [...]

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Caroline Supports Rose’s Cause

Posted in Fund Raising, Hope Ward, tagged , on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Caroline worked with me at Wesleyan and has been a great help and support in raising funds and awareness for Suubi Trust. She has just posted this in response to Rose’s Walk:

I joined this cause and support the Subbi Trust because in my life, everyday, things are on tap when I need them – but [...]

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Rose’s Journey: the Tweets

Posted in Fund Raising, Hope Ward, tagged on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday was a very special day. More than 60 supporters from across the globe: USA, UK and Uganda, joined Rose Clarke to walk 52 km from Bamuanika to Kiowoko Hospital, a journey Rose made back in 1989. For Rose and her friends, yesterday’s walk was in celebration of her many years of freedom, restoration, growth, [...]

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The Flip Side becomes a book

Posted in Hope Ward, TB Lab, Volunteers, tagged , on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dr. Grania Brigden (Price) worked at International Hospital Kampala as a volunteer, with VSO, for one year up to September 2008. She and her husband Dan kept their family, friends and supporters up to date on their experiences via their Blog, The Flip Side of the Coin.
The Blog has now become available as a book [...]

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Rose’s Journey

Posted in Fund Raising, Hope Ward, tagged on July 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Target: £12,500.00
Raised so far: £5,926.00
Almost £6,000 received so far and some more pledged, please help if you can.
In 1989, as a young girl, Rose Nanyonga was forced to leave her family’s village in Uganda.  She was alone and, as a female in Uganda without family protection, she had little hope. At the root of her [...]

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I’m not a Doctor BUT I can do numbers

Posted in Hope Ward, International Medical Group, Volunteers on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In an earlier posting I mentioned that for a hospital to operate well we need, in addition to Doctors and other Clinical staff, a wide range of non-clinical expertise.
Much of my time over the last few months, and indeed during my time over the last 2-3 years as a non-exec Director, has been spent reviewing [...]

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Touch Namuwongo

Posted in Fund Raising, International Medical Group, tagged on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

International Medical Foundation has been delivering an HIV/AIDs outreach programme to the people living in and around the hospital at Namuwongo, Kampala.

In the last year more than 4,750 people have received counselling and testing. Of those, 514 have tested positive; 43 are receiving Anti-Retroviral Therapy and 291 are being given other treatments and are continually [...]

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I am NOT a Doctor

Posted in Volunteers on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In recent months I’ve had an increasing number of contacts from those who have read this Blog and started thinking about maybe coming out to Kampala to help at the hospital or clinics. Often they, and I, are not immediately clear about what they could do when they get here; what would [...]

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Interns and Volunteers Required.

Posted in International Medical Group, Volunteers on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

International Medical Group is the leading private provider of health care services in Uganda. There are three main divisions in the group and our model is similar to that of HMOs in the USA:
1. IAA Health Care provides Health Schemes to employers for their employees and families and also some personal schemes. These schemes meet [...]

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One Wild Life

Posted in Staff, Suubi Trust on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

One Wild Life is an account of a journey Clare Mulvany made in 2007 travelling the globe for 11 months documenting inspiring stories of social change throughout the world. She interviewed hundred of social entrepreneurs and change-makers about their life stories, their motivations and their desires, and sought out individuals who were using their ideas, [...]

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