Health
Dentaid
01794 324249
Dentaid is one of the leading oral health charities in the world, having supported almost 200 oral health programmes in over 50 countries. In recent years, the charity has expanded its work from supplying refurbished dental surgeries for charitable projects, to playing vital roles in oral health promotion such as establishing innovative school prevention programmes, and initiating various training schemes encompassing disciplines from equipping rural health workers to carry out basic dental care in remote communities to teaching governments on fluoride advocacy and writing national oral health strategies. Dentaid is also working hard to lobby governments, companies and health organisations to adopt more oral health friendly policies and practices.
Kumi Community Fund



 Elspeth Robinson is a retired physiotherapist who has visited Kumi Hospital, Uganda each year since 2002 to work with the CBR staff and physiotherapists mobilising and following up children with disabilities. She is also involved with counselling leprosy sufferers and their families to integrate them back into the community. She has twinned 3 schools with schools in UK and has started a sports league in football, volleyball and netball. She has 11 youngsters in secondary and university education and spends her time in UK raising money for where it is needed. In 2008 she concentrated on flood relief as this was the latest disaster.

Just Care Charitable Trust
email: info@justcare.org
www.justcare.org		 The work of the charity includes evangelism, the relief of poverty by sending out items of aid, provision of schools, orphanage, medical centre and other resources when needed. We also provide Sunday school teaching, sponsorship of pupils in schools and in the orphanage and are teaching ladies to sew, knit and cook.

Just Care has been working in the village of Kamutuuza, West Buganda, for the past 7 years. The principal objectives for the charity’s Ugandan work is to encourage, enable and support the people of Uganda to develop and improve their education, health, economic independence and spiritual lives, with a particular emphasis on the educational, social and medical needs of the many thousands of children in the district.

Since 2004 Pauline Hutchinson (Dr) has been responsible for the development of a children’s medical centre in Kamutuuza, named “Wellspring”. Wellspring’s mission is to provide health care to children up to the age of 18 years in Kamutuuza and nearby communities, aiming to improve their quality and quantity of life: This is to be achieved through child health screening and general health care, vaccination programmes and minor injuries, acute malaria care, community outreach work and AIDS support, and health education. This medical centre opened in January 2008.