In previous blog posts we have shared with you updates on the Community Team’s work providing Youth Friendly Services and reducing malaria cases in the local community. Another really important part of the work of the Community Team is ensuring that children in the local communities are vaccinated against preventable disease. According to the Ugandan…
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Bwindi Books 📚
Bringing Bwindi alive for children everywhere – we present to you …. Bwindi Books! When Trustee, Holly Tyson, was volunteering at Bwindi Community Hospital, she wrote stories for her small children, and drew pictures inspired by their surroundings. Now at home in the UK, they serve as a way to keep the memories alive for…
Youth friendly services
The Community Team at BCH have been working to enhance their services for teens and young adults. We would like to share their latest report with you which explains the importance of these services and how they have been bringing them to the most remote and hard to reach villages around BCH. ‘Youth Friendly services…
News from the BCH Community Outreach team
Malaria Control in Kanyashande Village. Over the next few weeks we would like to share with you a series of stories from the Community Team at BCH about their most recent successes and challenges within the rural villages in the catchment area of Bwindi Community hospital. First we go to Kanyashande Village to hear about…
Breaking News from Sight4Bwindi
Sight4Bwindi have been awarded a £100,000 International Development Grant! Read more about this exciting achievement in their latest news letter below.
Happy 21st Birthday BCH and an Introduction to the Twinning Project!
We would like to offer a huge thank-you to all supporters as we celebrate the end of our 20 Peak Challenge! In 2003 Dr Scott Kellerman set up a clinic under a tree to provide healthcare to a neglected local hunter-gatherer community called the Batwa who had been displaced from their ancestral home. However, it…
2023 news
Festive greetings from REACH Bwindi, We’d like to take this opportunity to say a huge, big thank you to all our supporters. As 2023 draws to a close we’re pleased to bring you news from REACH Bwindi and Bwindi Community Hospital (BCH). Over the past year we have granted £26,000 to BCH. This money was…
Join the 20 peak challenge! Celebrating 20 years of Bwindi Community Hospital (BCH)
You are invited to sponsor or complete the challenge of 20 hilly hikes, yourself or as a group, to celebrate each of BCH’s 20 years serving a remote, rural population in Uganda, via its remarkable community team. Let’s raise £20+ per person per peak! Bwindi Community Hospital is celebrating being 20 years old! It is…
More from the Community team
This week we hear from Namaara Michael, who provides outreach services to the communities in the villages in the catchment area of BCH. ‘My name is Namaara Michael and I am a community nurse at Bwindi Community Hospital. I have worked at the hospital since July 2019. Prior to starting work I studied at Uganda…
A personal account from the community team
This week we hear from one of of the community team nurses, Mugarura Geoffrey. My name is Mugarura Geoffrey. I am a volunteer community nurse at Bwindi Community Hospital. I have worked at BCH for almost 2 years My job involves giving immunisations and screening for malnutrition in children under 5 years as part of…
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