Bring healthcare to 1,000+ Awake Uganda villagers

The Achon Uganda Children's Fund team continues to make great progress in serving the community of Otuke District in Northern Uganda. Since establishing our maternity ward last year, we have seen total patient counts--not just maternity services--steadily increase. We're now servicing well over 600 patients per month--a 30% increase from a year ago. And we're averaging almost two childbirths a day!

In addition, we've formed a partnership wth Love Mercy, another organization co-founded by Julius Achon, to support their Cents for Seeds program.  We're helping Love Mercy access the community and sharing our resources to help spread their fantastic program. Cents for Seeds provides seeds to women in the region. After planting the seeds and growing crops, the women repay the seeds later in the year. This makes the program sustainable, and gives the women ownership in the program.

Thanks to your support, AUCF and Love Mercy are growing!

Thanks to the generous support of you and many others, we were able to purchase an ambulance. It's the only one in the region, and is rugged enough to handle the tough roads of Otuke District in Northern Uganda.

The ambulance is used to transport emergency patients, and also take patients to local hospitals that provide services that Kristina Health Clinic does not provide...yet!  Earlier this year, we expanded into maternity services. The ambulance has been used several times to transport expectant mothers. One baby was recently born just outside of the ambulance at the mother's home!

While patients pay a small fee for transportation, we rely on the support of others to cover most of the cost of fuel, maintenance and to pay our driver. 

Thank you!