The B.B.C.C. committee (including Mr Lawrence & Mrs Aidah) was formed to make use of the land owned by Maria's Care in this area. The building on the land has now been transformed into a 4-roomed ‘level 3' clinic, to provide basic outpatient services and a maternity unit. The land itself is being used to grow crops & for educating local women in organic farming techniques.

The clinic, a level 3, will provide outpatient services and a maternity unit; there is a room in the building where mothers can stay after giving birth. There is a nearby house that can be used for the nurse/in charge to reside. The community has provided this but in the future they are hoping to have on site accommodation. They will continue to use the house that is there for the moment and that will be used for someone working in the out patient department and the on site accommodation will be to cover the maternity unit in case someone needs treatment during the night.
The government will run the clinic but they do not provide security so Mr Lawrence and Aidah are providing a security guard until there will be someone medical living on site, then they can secure the land. They have asked the community to pay 500/= each to pay the security guard and to maintain the house.

The main need for the clinic is a borehole. The nearest one is about 1 – 2 kms away, they have applied to the government for a bore hole on a couple of occasions but there have been turned down. Through donations we were able to provide a water storage barrel so that they can save the rainwater; it is a temporary solution.

There is a large plot of land to the left of the clinic that Mrs Aidah and the community are using to grow vegetables. At the moment they are growing groundnuts and sweet potatoes. They attempted to grow avocado and paw paw but due to the drought the ground has been too dry and they didn’t survive.
Mrs Aidah’s vision is too teach ladies groups. She has undertaken training in farming and agriculture and she wants to pass her knowledge on to the ladies in the community. She is also a member of the National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda (NOGAMU).
On the land Aidah has created a teaching garden, a hand washing water saving device, a fertiliser system. She can use this to demonstrate good farming techniques while growing vegetables.


The ladies groups that Aidah visits are 5 to 7 kms away so at present she can only manage 3 groups although she would like to visit 8 groups. She has been borrowing her husbands’ bike but if he needs it then she has to walk this distance. Again we were able to use donated money and provide them with a bike.