The Luwero region, in which our partner hospital – Kiwoko Hospital is based, is infamous within Uganda. During the 1980s, the Luwero Triangle was the epicentre of Uganda’s civil war with hundreds of thousands of people being massacred in the area by Amin’s and Obote’s troops. The total population in the district is around 500 000 people and a household typically earns around 30,000 Ugandan Shillings per month (£ 9.20). Kiwoko Hospital, founded in 1987 by an Irish doctor and missionary, is based just outside of Kiwoko Town, a drive of about an hour and a half north of Kampala. What began as one man’s passion to develop the communities in the district and provide health from under a tree, has now become a 25 acre facility, under the auspice of the Church of Uganda, treating over 45,000 outpatients each year and over 6,300 in-patients. The hospital provides a variety of tertiary care facilities alongside community development programmes. They try to integrate services within the community so that over time, communities can better prevent illness and disability and manage their health more effective. Kiwoko Hospital provides inpatient medical care ranging from general health checkups, to maternity, paediatrics, rehabilitation, dental, eye care, a diabetes clinic and nutrition programmes. They also have a pharmacy and a laboratory which not only provide services to the hospital, but also provide training for around 25 students a year to become Laboratory Technicians. They also train nurses in nationally accredited courses (Enrolled Nursing). In addition to these facilities, Kiwoko has a sizable community based health care department, which includes staff assisting people with HIV/AIDS. Staff are employed directly in community health (immunisation, training in schools, distribution of bed-nets and pit latrine slabs, disability training etc) and on community-related AIDS work. In addition, they have hundreds of volunteers working in the community, from Immunisers to Traditional Birth Attendants to Community volunteers for the WHO DOTS system (Directly Observed Therapy Short Course) TB programme.