Health
Since 2009, Sustain for Life has supported the Child Healthcare Access Programme (CHAP), a new child healthcare initiative at Bwindi Community Hospital in rural southwest Uganda. The CHAP provides all healthcare for children less than five years of age at minimal cost and, for the very poorest families, free of charge. Saving Lives of Vulnerable Children The…
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Agriculture
Since 2007, Sustain for Life has worked closely with Bwindi Community Hospital in southwest Uganda, providing support in a variety of ways, including sponsoring a feeding programme for its valuable staff members. We are currently looking at other ways in which we can support the hospital, including creating a subsidised feeding programme for all in-patients and developing gardens on-site…
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Victory Nursery and Primary School is located in rural Uganda on the edge of the famous Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, home of the endangered mountain gorillas. When we first visited the school in 2011 we were shocked at what we saw. The children’s uniforms were in tatters, their classrooms and other facilities were in disrepair and…
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The Live at Birth was a project at Bwindi Community Hospital in Uganda supported by Sustain for Life and Comic Relief that addressed the issues of maternal and child health in the region. It promoted an innovative insurance scheme that brought about more equitable healthcare for all members of the community served by the hospital. This project grew out of the…
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Since June 2012 Sustain for Life and partners, Children on the Edge in the UK and Adolescent Development Support Network (ADSN) in Uganda, have been supporting the inhabitants of the “Soweto” slum outside of Jinja, Uganda. This programme has dramatically improved the situation within the community of Soweto for vulnerable people by creating a safer community for children where their needs…
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Sustain for Life, along with partner Send a Cow Uganda, worked to deliver an innovative, multi-faceted project to improve the lives and future prospects of children who are detained at Kampiringisa National Rehabilitation Centre. Kampiringisa is Uganda’s only juvenile detention centre for children aged 12-18. The centre was also a temporary home to children younger than 12, including…
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