The volunteers who have been to our Ugandan partnership placement site might like to know that there has been some changes to the core management team. The previous key manager, Emmanuel Norman Nakhokho, has left the project and his younger sister, Joy Nakhokho, is now primarily running the project with the help of her parents.
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Bunabumali School Health Centre
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Within Bududa, the students at Bunabumali Orphan and Needy Project would benefit greatly from a school health centre, to be operated on the school grounds. This proposal is designed as a five-year project.
During Year 1, the school will focus on developing a high-quality first aid post, triage centre, and children’s health management post for student at the school. All student health records will be kept on site, and staff at the health centre will focus on health maintenance and preventive care for children at the school. Children will receive a yearly health assessment from a physician; it will be the full-time staff member’s decision when and how to follow-up with condition identified during wellness checkups.
During Years 2 and 3, the school health centre will gradually begin to expand in size to serve a wider population. During this period, the clinic will expand referral and triage services to the general community. As in Year 1, the health centre will not provide any treatment beyond basic care; however, expanding these services to the public will help the health centre to identify needs and priorities for the facility as it expands to provide comprehensive health services for residents of Bunabumali. Additionally, during this year the school will provide HIV counselling and testing services.
In Years 4 and 5, the school health centre will transition to a fully operational health centre II. With a strong basis of community and family support, the clinic will offer comprehensive clinical and community-based care to individuals using the clinic.
Given its proximity to the school, this health centre will be an ideal mechanism through which to disseminate health information to student at a young age, in order to encourage them to practice good health behaviours throughout their lives.
Makeshift mobile phone charger through a solar panel on the roof, awaiting to be replaced by a professional solar energy installation we just ordererd, providing the much needed energy that will set Bunabumali a light in the evening, making it one of the few places in the region to have this life essential.
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Building of Bunabumali Guesthouse & Meetingcenter, inspired by Seats2Meet has started. Norman will add some more details on the progress soon…
Some new pictures showing recent developments in Bunabumali. More updates this week.
building progress.
Today we started renovating the old house, soon to be phase one of Buna Guesthouse & Meeting center.
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The start of the white village and Buna Guesthouse & Meeting center.
Amazing as it may sound, you are now looking at s2m Bunabumali. After renovation this will become reception area and kitchen. The building in the front will be turned into a shop. The second building is how Bunabumali was started 6 years ago. We are keeping the building but will renovate over the next few weeks so it will look really smart.
The existing building will be enhanced by a semi open plan meeting and work area, professional kitchen and guesthouse reception.
The guestrooms will be build above the meeting center, up hill, but still connected to the meeting space.
The guesthouse and meeting center will be the first of it’s kind in the world, build fromPET bottles as part of our ambition to introdcuce sustainabale building technology in landslide country, Eastern Uganda.
Solar energy provides all power needed, a generator is availabe as back up and the meeting center will offer wifi internet to it’s visitors. At the same time we conserve the forrest, fight soil erosion and experiment with rainwater harvesting. Essential issues that will in the end turn our experiences into a pilot project he whole region can benefit from.
Streetkids
Bottles are bought from Kampala streetkids. We are looking into options to offer streetkids a new futureand a safe home, ofcourse build from PET bottles by the kids themselves, but that’s one of our new 2012 ambitions.
