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Bukobero Community Health Centre III

Our Reason for Being

The people of the Bukobero community, in Kuushu Sub County of the Bududa District of eastern Uganda, are building a much-needed Health Center III to replace the one destroyed by a mudslide in 2010.

For years, community members have had to walk miles on rugged, mountainous dirt roads to reach medical care—or spend their limited resources on transportation. Too often, people simply cannot make the journey, leaving illnesses untreated and forcing women to give birth at home or along the roadside unattended by medical personnel.

A Health Center III will bring essential services closer to home, providing primary care, maternity services, safe deliveries, childhood vaccinations, laboratory testing, and much more for this hardworking community.

Children, like Elizabeth Habuya, will finally have access to local healthcare—so they can grow up healthy and thrive.

You can help this community realize its dream!

Turning a Dream into Reality

In 2018, the Bukobero community took the first step toward making this vision a reality.

They established the Bukobero Community Health Centre as a Community-Based Organization (CBO), which has since grown into a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Uganda. The NGO launched an active Community Engagement Process with over 150 men and women participating in identifying community strengths, priorities, and leadership.

Through collective effort, they raised funds to purchase land, out of the slide zones, for the health facility and donated extra land for the road. Community members contributed not just land, but also materials, labor, and time. The NGO developed governance structures, secured government approvals, cleared the land, installed a water system, and began construction in 2022. Today, the building is nearing completion!

The NGO’s leadership team works closely with local and district government agencies to ensure compliance with all health, safety, building, and environmental regulations.

What Makes This Health Center Different?

This will be a community-owned, non-profit health facility—a rare model in Uganda, where most clinics are run by the government, foreign NGOs, churches, or private for-profit organizations. The Bukobero NGO will own and operate the health center. The NGO is led by a dedicated team of elders, activists, and community leaders—both women and men—and mobilizers are actively spreading awareness in surrounding villages.

From the very beginning, the community has been actively involved. Over 80 volunteers dug 700 meters of trenches to install a gravity-fed water system and cleared the road to the facility.

The health center will also feature innovative solutions not commonly found in rural clinics:

Electronic record-keeping for better patient care
Solar power system and backup generator for reliable energy
A laboratory to do on-site testing
Obstetric diagnostic ultrasound to ensure safe births
A multipurpose third floor for vaccination clinics, health education, trainings, and community meetings
A homework and tutoring center for village youth, with enhanced lighting for studying

Sustainability is at the heart of the plan. The community is developing income-generating businesses to help support clinic operations long-term.

The people of Bukobero are committed—building not just a health center, but a healthier future for all!

The Need

Many children in Bukobero suffer needlessly from preventable childhood diseases—like Gift Namasopo, who likely has rickets.

Rickets is most often caused by a nutritional deficiency, typically a lack of calcium or vitamin D. Without these essential nutrients, bones become soft and weak. While the condition is easily treatable, Gift’s parents had no nearby clinic where they could seek help or advice.

Now, with the Bukobero Community Health Centre, Gift and other children like her finally have access to the care they need.