It answers a real, documented burden
Acholi carries high malaria transmission, one of Uganda's highest HIV prevalences, lasting war trauma and nodding syndrome.
Health and Community Wellbeing
Healthy Futures: Mobile Clinics and Community Wellness
Bringing care, healing and hope to where the war left its mark
A proposed project seeking funding. Your gift is recorded as a pledge: no money is taken on this website.
- 6,000people served by mobile clinics
- 1,000receive mental health support
- 100children and youth with seizures supported
- 2,000households with hygiene kits
- 110village health team members and peer ambassadors trained
- USD 47cost per person served in the clinics
The need
Why this project matters
The war ended in 2006. Its wounds in the body and the mind did not. Families lived for years in crowded camps with little clean water, sanitation or health care, and the effects reach into today: high levels of post-traumatic stress and depression, one of Uganda's highest HIV prevalences and a very high burden of malaria. In Pader, Kitgum and Lamwo, thousands of children developed nodding syndrome, a seizure disorder whose cause is still not fully understood. Many villages are far from a health centre.
Our response
A three-year programme that brings care closer to people and builds the community systems to sustain it. It does not replace the health system: it works through it, with health workers posted by the District Health Offices and clinical oversight from qualified professionals.
What your support makes possible
- 108 integrated mobile outreach days offering malaria testing and treatment, antenatal and child health, nutrition screening, blood pressure and diabetes checks, HIV counselling and testing with linkage to care, and referral, serving about 6,000 people.
- Mental health and psychosocial support for at least 1,000 people through trained lay counsellors, healing circles and support groups, supervised by a mental health professional.
- 100 children and youth with nodding syndrome or epilepsy, and their caregivers, supported with care follow-up, transport, nutrition, fire safety and a return to school.
- Sexual and reproductive health education, HIV services and 60 trained peer health ambassadors for young people.
- Hygiene and prevention for 2,000 households and 800 girls, and 50 Village Health Team members trained in care, referral and outbreak readiness.
Built to last, and accountable
It strengthens the public system, not a parallel one
Every clinic day is planned with the District Health Office, staffed by licensed health workers and reported into the national system.
It treats the whole person
Mental health, young people's health, hygiene and nutrition sit beside clinical care, because health is more than medicine.
It leaves capacity behind
50 Village Health Team members and 60 peer ambassadors are trained, equipped and supervised.
It is accountable and safe
Clinical governance, consent, referral, data protection and child protection are built in, with an annual audit and open reporting.
A budget built line by line
Total request UGX 1,047,740,100 (about USD 279,397), built bottom-up from unit costs, over 36 months. Every figure comes from our detailed budget, which funders receive with the full proposal.
Fund the whole project, or pick one contribution
Every choice below is real and priced. Pick one, add your details and send your pledge: we contact you to complete the gift.
You will always know where your gift went
Transparency
A dedicated contact, quarterly narrative and financial reports, an annual report, audited accounts and open access to records.
Impact you can see
Results by sex, age and disability, success stories with consent, photographs and short films, and an invitation to visit and meet the people you help.
Recognition
Acknowledgement in reports, events and certificates, and naming opportunities, as agreed with each partner.
A voice
A seat on the project steering committee and a say in the priorities of the work you fund.
Good questions, honest answers
Is LAF a clinic or hospital?
No. LAF does not run its own clinical services. Outreach is carried out with the District Health Offices and licensed health workers, and LAF provides logistics, mobilisation, counselling and community support.
How do you work with government?
Through memoranda of understanding with both District Health Offices, joint planning of outreach days, a steering committee and reporting into the national system.
Do you give medicines?
Government supplies are used first. The project buys only small amounts from licensed suppliers to fill gaps. LAF does not give antiseizure medicine; that stays with government treatment centres.
Can lay counsellors treat trauma?
They offer brief, evidence-based support (WHO Problem Management Plus) under professional supervision. Severe cases are referred.
How do you protect people's privacy?
Consent, private spaces, minimal data, secure registers and devices, and compliance with the Data Protection and Privacy Act.
Want the full proposal and the detailed budget? Ask us for them, or call +256-779-712-990.
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