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Suubi Trust Annual Returns

Posted in Cancer Care, Charis - IMC Lira, Fund Raising, Hope Ward, International Medical Foundation, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Since it was registered on July 2nd 2007, Suubi Trust has raised just over £200,000 to help support the work of International Medical Foundation, an NGO providing healthcare services to the financially disadvantaged in Uganda. Our key focus at this time is raising funds to build a maternity theatre at Charis Health Centre in Lira, [...]

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Dr. Alison Raising Funds for Touch Namuwongo

Posted in Fund Raising, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , , , , on August 17, 2011 | Comments Off

A recent post by Dr. Alison described how she helped to establish an STD Clinic within the Touch Namuwongo Programme in Kampala. This summer Alison, Alan and their family raised £1,171 to help support this programme by speaking at a local church lunch and hosting a Ugandan party for supportive friends in her native St [...]

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Dr. Alison (VSO) working with Touch Namuwongo

Posted in Fund Raising, Staff, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Alison Cowan, a GP from the UK, and her family have recently returned after a fabulous 18 months in Uganda working with the IMG group through the charity VSO. She came to Uganda initially to facilitate the training of medical staff across the various IMG primary care clinics. Through this work she came to appreciate [...]

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Advent: Day 3 Touch Namuwongo

Posted in Advent, International Medical Foundation, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , on December 3, 2010 | Comments Off

I really like this photo which I took during an open day for the Touch Namuwongo Programme at IHK. It was just great to see so many of the local children taking part in the events in the hospital grounds. Our vision is that IHK would help to serve all of the people living in [...]

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Dragon’s Den- African Style!

Posted in Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , on October 21, 2010 | Comments Off

Alan and Alison posted this about one of our latest initiatives on Touch Namuwongo – hoping to help the community with income generation… original post here   As part of the income generation project with the Touch Namuwongo Community volunteers, Alan organised a Dragon’s Den style forum for the volunteers to pitch their business ideas [...]

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Last Patient Of The Day

Posted in International Medical Foundation, Patients, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , on October 1, 2010 | Comments Off

By Dr. Alison: It had been a busy day in the community sexual health clinic and we were all feeling tired and hungry. It had been a long day too for Jane, our last patient of the day, not that she allowed us to think that for a moment. She entered the room in a [...]

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Not Just Diarrhoea or Malaria (or even HIV/AIDS)

Posted in International Medical Foundation, International Medical Group, tagged , , on August 1, 2010 | Comments Off

I’m sure that when you think of health in Africa, most times, you will think Diarrhoea, Malaria, HIV/AIDS or TB. However this is just a part of the whole picture, yes a very important part, but there is more. Uganda’s disease patterns progressively show an increase in diabetes, hypertension or sometimes heart disease that can [...]

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I wish it were that easy!!

Posted in Fund Raising, Suubi Trust, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , on May 3, 2010 | Comments Off

Dr. Alison has been a great help recently on our Touch Namuwongo programme. She has helped to establish some new treatment guidelines, especially for cervical screening and the STI clinic. She has just posted this on her blog … >>> …front page headline of a national newspaper yesterday!! Then another bit of classic primary prevention [...]

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