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Restoring sight to thousands, bringing clean water back to remote villages, and backing communities with training, healthcare and food security.
Restoring sight to thousands, bringing clean water back to remote villages, and backing communities with training, healthcare and food security.
From eye camps that restore sight to thousands, to hand pumps bringing clean water back to whole villages, vocational training, medical camps, food security and year-round community care, our work in Uganda reaches some of the country's most remote communities.
In partnership with a local hospital, our eye-care programme is one of the largest things we do in Uganda. Each year it screens more than 2,000 patients and performs over 300 sight-restoring surgeries.
For someone who has slowly lost their sight, a single operation can be the difference between dependence and getting their life back.
Each year we install around 15 to 20 new hand pumps and bring 35 to 40 broken, unused pumps back into service. Whole communities get clean, reliable water again, ending the long daily walk to collect it.
Local doctors, supported by visiting UK clinicians, run regular medical camps and training programmes. Care reaches communities that rarely see a doctor, and frontline health workers build skills that stay in the country.
A vocational training centre equips hundreds of young people each year with practical, employable skills. Alongside it, a secondary school with its own vocational stream gives students both an academic foundation and a hands-on route into a trade.
We provide farmers with seeds and fertiliser, run small-scale milling machines across villages, and add shredders and shelling machines every year. An animal farm and farmer training help whole communities feed themselves and build a small income.
Clothing, food supplies, essential household items and dedicated aid for people with disabilities reach the families and individuals who need support the most, all year round.
Each year Qurbani meat reaches around 9,000 people across more than 30 locations nationwide, bringing nutritious food to families during a time of celebration.
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