The New Facility - opened July 2005 and greatly expanding our services
The availability of primary healthcare services and advice in Lukuli, near to where people lived, allowed the community to learn about their health and take responsibility. Our original premises had been improved but were stretched to cope. Joyce's old house had become a delivery room and three patient beds in two small rooms. The old blue clinic was the waiting room, laboratory and consultation room. Over 300 patients per month was too many, deliveries were cramped, the lack of electricity at times of night (throughout the city) put patients at risk. In 2004 Philip and Clare provided funding to build the new facility, the committee negotiated with Namirembe Diocese of the Church of Uganda and a 25 year lease of land was granted without rent or premium on which we started to build.

The committee supervising in 2004
EMI's plans and Swanee's skills
Completed with thanks to our supporters

Engineering Missionaries International (www.emiusa.org) provided the detailed architectural plans and builders from nearby were employed to do the work. Local quarries supplied stones for cement but a real God-send was M.L. Swanee Schwanz whose time, professional equipment and experience meant we built and now enjoy a strong building with proper corners, no leaks or cracks, plumbing that works as planned and is a pleasure to work in.

The Friends of Hope Clinic Lukuli - NGO and companies
We have been able to equip the new facility and expand our services through the support of the Rotary Club of Makindye, through Past President Charles Kabunga and the subsequent club presidents, and Past President Stephen Lloyd of the Cleeve Vale club in Cheltenham and the subsequent club presidents. The Matching Grant, with Rotary International, provided over $20,000 which included medical instruments, a large programme of malaria management including net retreatment and net distribution, our essential power back-up system and beds and furniture.

We have also received $5,000 (Shs 10 Million) from Aggreko Plc who has a long term role in Uganda as the providers of 50MW of diesel power generation for the national grid. Aggreko staff were trained by Hope Clinic Lukuli in HIV awareness and to develop their workplace policies. In addition to printing information materials for distribution to the community, they made the donation which has enabled additional maternity equipment to be purchased and two extra staff to be employed for nursing and counselling.

During the first part of 2005, we resumed construction of the new facility and have been assisted in that by a large grant of £1,000 from the Justice & Peace Committee of Sacred Hearts church in Cheltenham, UK as well as pledges from family and friends of £800 and £1,000. These represent substantial support and enable the new facility to be plumbed, have electrical installation and painted respectively. We completed the work and moved in at the start of July 2005

The Kampala business community has been willing to receive requests from Hope Clinic Lukuli and we are grateful to the construction assistance received from:

- Hima Bamburi for 100 bags of cement;

- Roofings Limited for 20% discount on all the steel, partly mitigating world price rises;

- Standard Signs for providing and offering to maintain our signage;

- Hwan Sung Industries for 30% discount on the uPVC windows and mosquito screens;

- Roofings Limited for extra support by discounting the green, plastic coated wire fence;

- The Tile Centre for the tiles and basins fitted to the maternity shower and toilet, the other patient washrooms and the tiled laboratory surfaces;

- CTM for the tap fittings which are in every medical room with basins;

- Security Group for providing an alarm response system to safeguard our 24 hour services to the community, our staff and our patients;

- AIG Uganda, our insurer, who provided a large donation which negated our premium in the first year of the new premises;

- Belgian Technical Cooperation for enabling us to buy a Solar Construct water heater and contributing towards the remainder of the plumbing costs.