Community Centre & Clinic

Help us to Build our Community Centre & Health Centre

to make a huge difference to the lives of some 7,000 villagers and children in the Butansi area

The Clinic will provide ongoing healthcare for the community, which they currently do not have.

When children get sick the parent(s) or guardian tend to do little about it – until they get really ill and then it’s up to a 2 hour walk to the nearest hospital!

Annette has in the past organised a number of ‘pop up clinics’ run by medical volunteers. Many of the children were then found to be ill and were all treated on the spot and immunised where necessary.

This led us to realise the importance of providing ongoing preventative healthcare for the children and villagers, in the form of a medical facility.

Thanks to a generous donation from the Theatre Make a Difference Trust [see below], we have been able to start to build our clinic. However, we need further funds to complete it for opening.

We Need Your help to raise a further £10,000 to complete our Clinic

The donated monies will go towards fully equipping the health centre with the necessary fixtures & fittinig, drugs and dressing + initial staffing

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The next stage of our project will be to add further buildings to complete our Community Centre complex. The Centre will serve to bring all our educational activities and other projects together in one central location and provide a social hub for the whole community. We will also have an accommodation block for visiting healthcare workers and volunteers and other social amenities.

Details about the Project

The Site:

A 3 acre site close to St Mary’s church in Butansi has been donated to us by the Busoga Diocese. We had a special Land Demarcation Ceremony there, where Annette signed the necessary papers. We are now in the final throes of getting the land title finalised, so that the land is legally ours.

We surveyed & prepared the land and established partnerships for taking the project forward. We have prepared a budget from central and local expertise. After an official ‘Ground Breaking’ Ceremony the building could begin.

The clinic is being constructed by Green Heat International and is due to be completed soon.

Phased Building Programme

In 2019 we have commenced our 3-phase building programme, focussing on delivering the services that the community needs most

Phase 1

Clearing the site and putting in the infrastructure – water borehole, sewerage, power & cooking facilities. Land will also have been cleared for our crops & livestock programme.

Temporary housing for construction experts, instructors and support teams – before being converted for permanent use by visiting health workers, volunteers, etc.
Construction of the medical centre, office, kitchen and initial multi-purpose meeting and classrooms.

Phase 1 includes the completion of the infrastructure and the first three buildings to provide:

Healthcare
- Preventative medicine, vaccinations, etc.
- Visiting clinic services; eg. specialists, dental, physio, etc.
- AIDs education and counselling
- Additional fresh water source for the village
Student Support
- After school study rooms with electricity
- After school tutoring
- Computer and internet access and training
Expansion of Adult Education Classes
Women’s Business Self Help Micro-finance Groups (already in progress)
Community agriculture support (already in progress)

Phases 2 & 3

Delivers additional facilities based on community needs and priorities
- Additional classrooms and meeting rooms
- Youth centre
- Sports facilities
- Fully equipped library & dedicated computer room
- Arts & Craft Centre – with workshops for training & production

A big THANK YOU to the Theatre Make a Difference Trust

~ aiming to fight HIV and AIDS on step at a time ~

We were delighted to receive a significant grant from the TMAD Trust which allowed us to build the health centre, which is the first part of our Community Centre project. will go towards the building of our clinic in the first phase of this project.