Never doubt the impact that a few dedicated individuals can have on a difficult situation

The past eleven years have shown the founders, the staff and the community what commitment can lead to in the availability and sustained use of health services.

You can - you should - take action to help. As individuals, offer your skills from your home. As a company or organisation with a service, maybe you can deliver it for us. If your organisation has a monthly collection or theme, consider Hope Clinic Lukuli for one week. If you have the authority, please donate 1 hour of the company's turnover to us (nothing to you, massive for us). Take Action, Please

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If you are in 'development' please look at our work and achievements. Our annual expenditure, including staff, medicines, maintaining the facility and all the services with the community amounts to USD$100,000. Think of all the mega-projects and compare their efficiency to that of Hope Clinic Lukuli and our community.

Lake Victoria	Rural reality of life	The community we serve

As we start 2011, having passed the tenth anniversary of Hope Clinic Lukuli's founding Lukuli and the whole of Kampala has changed with several mobile phone operators, tarmac roads, many flashy cars and lots of night life. In Lukuli, the power supply is a bit better, the road for 2 miles (3.3km) to the nearest larger hospital is tarmaced. In general health terms across Uganda, new malaria drugs (ACT) are available on the market and HIV programmes are common-place. But, our community is now close to 100,000 people, many houses are unchanged in terms of their condition, there are many more people chasing fewer jobs, and casual work is hard to find. Food prices rose 10% during 2009 and now are 30% higher so every household is affected. Hope Clinic Lukuli tries to not add to that burden, our price to see Omusawo (medic) remains as it was before we opened the new facility in 2005: Shs 1,000 or the price of a meal cooked at home. Please help us keep our prices to the low level needed by our community.