Uganda

Our programme in Uganda focuses on the health and education sectors. We are working with the Ministry of Education to develop a national curriculum for business and technical vocational training. We are also working with the Ministry of Health to provide support to district occupational therapists.  

For more information about our work in Uganda, please email eastafricainfo@skillshare.org

Kiwoko Rural Hospital

Kiwoko Hospital is a rural non-governmental hospital, supported by the Church of Uganda.  It is situated 50 miles north of Kampala in Uganda in the Luwero Triangle, a region made infamous during the 1981-86 civil war, when approximately one-third of the population was killed. 
 
The hospital provides curative and preventative health services to all people irrespective of their tribe, nationality, race, colour, sex, language or creed and mainly serves a population of approximately 500,000 subsistence farmers.  It also runs extensive community education and sanitation programmes, and there is an adolescent health centre which pays particular attention to issues relating to sexuality and lifestyle. 
 
The training of health workers has been a central part of the hospital's work.  The hospital has a school with over 100 students where enrolled comprehensive nurses (Ugandan national standard) and laboratory assistants are trained.

Skillshare International has been working in partnership with Kiwoko Hospital since 2006, when we placed a general surgeon as a development worker to help develop the hospital's surgical department; train surgical staff, including the administration of spinal anaesthesia; develop the hospital's capacity to deal with emergencies and to treat illnesses and injuries. 

Find out more at www.fokh.org.uk or read about our development worker's first three months at Kiwoko in "Improving Care for Trauma and Surgical Illnesses in Rural Uganda."