Healthy Child Uganda – (HCU)
	Ms. Teddy Kyomuhangi (Project Manager)
Address:	Plot 42 Lower Circular Road, Mbarara Town
District:	Mbarara
P.O. Box:	33
Tel:	048520229, 0772614391
E-Mail:	hcupm@yahoo.co.uk hcu@ucalgary.ca
Website:	www.healthychilduganda.org

Founded:

2003

Funders:

CIDA and private donors (Canadian)

Objectives:

Healthy Child Uganda is a community based partnership that works with local citizens to identify and solve the problems that most impact their children's health.

Activities:

HCU is committed to three guiding principles: participatory development, health promotion and sustainability. We emphasize healthy practices such as immunization, good nutrition and preventing disease. We train village volunteers to recognize, refer and treat sick children in their communities. We also build capacity in child health program management and research at Mbarara University of Science and Technology through faculty training, mentoring and student placements. In addition we work to build capacity at local health centres through staff training and facility improvements.

Organization type:

other_organisation University partnership project between two Canadian Universities and Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Area of operation:

Bushenyi Mbarara

Target group(s):

AIDS Infected Children boys girls, Orphans and Destitute boys girls, Disabled Children boys girls, Other, please specify:, Children under five, their families and communities. In addition, University students, faculty and staff and government health workers.

Does facilitate community training:

yes

Does monitor child abuse:

yes

Reasons:

Networking with other organizations, understanding who is active in our physical area and our type of work. Resource sharing, partnerships.

Networx:

Health, Resource Mobilization, Exchange of Publications, Counseling and Referral Services, Other, please specify:, As we are interested in improving the lives of people in our project communities we are particularly interested in income generating, community training, water & sanitation, agriculture, solar energy and other things that reduce poverty and improve the lives of our community members.