Supporting
Hope Clinic Lukuli is worthy of recognition
STAY
ALIVE (youth health information):
From
October 2006 to April 2007, Hope Clinic Lukuli has been part
of a consortium of programme designers, funders, guardians and
implementers of the Stay Alive initiative. Reach
the Children The whole initiative is covered on the programme's
website at www.stayalive.org Extract
of site
The
Stay Alive programme covers distinct age groups from 9 years
to mid teens; at Hope Clinic Lukuli we wanted to start with
the upper-Primary ages of 9 to 11 years old. Stay Alive was
designed by United Families International (UFI) as a means to
help children protect their health and their lives through consequential
thinking. The Stay Alive program arms them understand that happiness
can be found in healthy, loving families and that they have
a responsibility to their friends and siblings. This is accomplished
through a collaborative effort with country officials, local
leaders, parents, guardians and teachers. In Africa, Reach the
Children is the implementing organisation which in a similar
way to the Stay Alive programme itself, and Hope Clinic Lukuli,
was started when somebody saw a problem and felt sure they could
use their skills to make things better.
Hope
Clinic Lukuli was able to work with Reach the Children's team
in Uganda through the financial support of Until There's A Cure.
www.utac.org This North American charity has been supporting
Hope Clinic Lukuli in outreaching its HIV awareness, counselling,
testing and treatment services. Through Stay Alive and UNTIL,
we were able to reach parents and teachers as well as the children
in schools and out of school.
Aggreko
(Uganda's main electricity producer, global power provider):
Aggreko International and its group company Aggreko Plc has
been working in Uganda in recent years providing generator power
to supplement Uganda's Nile River hydro-electric dams. Hope
Clinic Lukuli is a major beneficiary of Aggreko which has supported
us in 2005, 2006 and has now agreed further support in 2007.
The support in 2006/07 Aggreko
was towards childhood illnesses and care of new born babies
and under 5 year olds. Aggreko helped provide scales and measures
for growth monitoring, production of literature on nutrition
and health care and contributions towards the costs of our health
staff. The original support in 2005/06 was to improve our HIV
counselling, care and testing through sponsoring a counsellor
and a nurse.
The
third stage of support in 2007/08
is again in line with national priorities for health in provision.
Many of our clients are in their teens or early twenties and
lack access to money to pay for treatment and consultation without
asking their parents. Although we encourage discussion within
families, this financial barrier meant accurate testing could
not be accessed in the case of sexually transmitted diseases.
In Government-staffed health units in Uganda the services are
without patient fees but in the Lukuli catchment some user fees
are necessary. Aggreko had allowed us to retain and expand our
free HIV counselling and testing from 2005/06 and this latest
supportnow allows that free service to be extended to STD/STIs.
Rotary International: Rotary Club of Makindye and Cheltenham
Cleeve Vale:
During the construction of the new health unit in 2004 and the
opening in 2005, we received huge support from the clubs of
Rotary International in Kampala and Cheltenham - the home town
of two of the founders. The Cheltenham Cleeve Vale club raised
funds from its members and friends as well as District contribution.
With further support from Makindye club, which hosts the clinic,
and a Matching Grant from The Rotary Foundation, we received
over $21,000. TRF
Support This purchased furniture and instruments for the
wards, a large power inverter (back-up) to help us through the
many power cuts, and over 1,500 treated mosquito nets which
were for free distribution. We are pleased that the club and
its members have continued their support and interest in our
work, including a visit in 2007. This was to recognise over
$3,000 of further support from the club and individuals Xmas
2007 visit
DFCU
Group and the International Finance Corporation (IFC):
The DFCU Group providing banking and leasing services in Uganda
has a broad and committed programme of support to HIV. With
support from the IFC, DFCU have supported Hope Clinic Lukuli
to upgrade the laboratory services and add to the equipment
and furniture as the clinic has expanded over the last two years.
The onging DFCU support is expected to continue into 2008. DFCU
IFC
The
DFCU Bank employees have continued the support of their management
adn during 2007 have collected Shs 1,000 from their salary each
month. In March 2008 a donation
of Shs 4 million (over $2,000) was made to finalise the lab
improvements. The clinic can receive support in a number of
ways and the help we have received to date has included people’s
time, their technical skills (medical and non-medical) and creating
a link to a fund provider, equipment provider or to another
NGO that wishes to use the clinic as an outreach base.
Support
has been received and is welcome in many forms: helping us to
link with and gain access to an existing programme seeking an
outreach location; links to volunteers and self-funded individuals
with professional expertise for one day, short term or longer
relationships; guidance on grant providers or offers to link
us to a group of friends looking for a safe project to support.
If you already know of a way to help us or have equipment or
funds please contact us by e-mail and we can discuss it further.
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