Hands of Mercy Buwaya

About us

Hands of Mercy Buwaya is a registered non-profit community based organization alleviating the suffering of the vulnerable people living in Buwaya, by providing sustainable health and social services.

Our mission is to save lives in the remote Buwaya through improving health and empowering people socially. We do that, by providing free medical treatment and performing necessary activities that can bring change to the lives of the underprivileged. We believe in smart fund allocation, and therefore we provide accountability for every expenditure

Activities:
• Our health care intervention is going to focus on prevention and less on treatment and we are going to implement this through community health talks in villages and local schools. We shall focus on personal and household hygiene and sanitation- washing hands, cleaning house and compound to remove stagnant water that usually becomes breeding ground for mosquitoes that transmit malaria, boiling water for drinking, washing hands after using latrines, food preservation and First Aid techniques.
• We shall train Village Health Responders who will help to coordinate emergency cases in villages with us. Each village will at least have two Village Health responders who will be the first res ponders when there is an emergence and also assist with basic health education and monitoring. They will visit patients and call in to request medical transportation assistance in emergence cases when someone needs to get to a hospital but can’t afford.
• We shall facilitate HIV testing and counseling through a partnership with TASO Entebbe!
• We shall engage in struggle to prevent malaria which is a number one killer disease in Africa.In collaboration with Ministry of Health in Uganda, we shall help in giving out treated mosquito nets to children, women and men in poor families to fulfill the ‘‘chase malaria campaign’’

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.