During the first part of 2005, we resumed construction of the new facility and was assisted in that by a large grant of £1,000 from the Justice & Peace Committee of Sacred Hearts church in Cheltenham, UK as well as pledges from family and friends of £800 and £1,000. This substantial support enabled the new facility to be plumbed, have electrical installation and painted respectively. We completed the work and moved in at the start of July 2005.

We were able to equip the new facility and expand our services through the support of the Rotary Club of Makindye, through Past President Charles Kabunga and the subsequent club presidents, and Past President Stephen Lloyd of the Cleeve Vale club in Cheltenham and the subsequent club presidents. The Matching Grant, with Rotary International, provided over $21,000 which included medical instruments, a large programme of malaria management including net retreatment and net distribution, our essential power back-up system and beds and furniture.

We have also received $5,000 (Shs 10 Million) from Aggreko Plc who has a long term role in Uganda as the providers of 50MW of diesel power generation for the national grid. Aggreko staff were trained by Hope Clinic Lukuli in HIV awareness and to develop their workplace policies. In addition to printing information materials for distribution to the community, they made the donation which has enabled additional maternity equipment to be purchased and two extra staff to be employed for nursing and counselling. Two further grants have also been made by Aggreko.

The Kampala business community has been willing to receive requests from Hope Clinic Lukuli and, we are grateful to the construction assistance received from:

The Aids Information Centre (AIC) have recently agreed to help the expanding clinic to develop its Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) services which AIC already provided from their main office at Mengo in Kampala. Following an initial tour of the clinic and the new facility under construction we agreed to a twice-a-month programme whereby AIC will bring their counsellors, lab technician and testing staff and spend a whole day with the community around Hope Clinic Lukuli. On 22 June this was advertised through an AIC drama team at the clinic and on 29 June 2004 we had our first AIC testing day. This was very successful, with over 40 people being tested by mid-afternoon, compared to 100 that the established AIC offices see per day. It is very encouraging that the population's interest in their HIV status could be served by our clinic and we appreciate the work by AIC in serving that demand. In 2005 the counselling sessions moved to the new facility and grew rapidly. Becoming an accredited Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) site in 2006 numbers grew further and we now counsel and test over 6,000 people a year.