Opening Bukomolo Clinic in 2007 was one of the best dreams come true for the community. They celebrated because hope to get treatment for their diseases had come.
At GWI, this was an achievement to contribute to health development in the country. But there was one thing that GWI had to consider too. And this was how to sustain the daily running of the clinic.
GWI hoped to sustain the clinic on Fees levied on patients for the services they receive but it is so difficult to raise even 15% on the total clinic monthly expenditure (salaries, stock medicines, buy medical equipments, PPEs, lab supplies, fuel, & utilities among others).
Bukomolo is a peasant community. A community with low economic standard, no electricity, poor housing, no shop, no school & families depend on digging to get food & other basic needs.
So, five years ago, GWI started a sustainability plan. One of them was to get agriculture equipment and this included a hand tractor, groundnut sheller and groundnut grinder.
The target was to improve on how much the families in the community could cultivate to get more food as well as introducing economic mind. The grinder & sheller were to help on food processing & to get into better market.
To-date, the clinic receives about 30% monthly financial support from the agriculture equipment.
“We are glad because this approach is enabling us to cover some of the deficits at the clinic” says GWI CEO Grace Nakajje.
But still, Nakajje is calling for any individual or organization willing to support the clinic to join. “I thank friends of GWI from the USA for supporting to purchase these equipment”