Uganda suffered 20 years of brutal insurgency at the hands of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) but in 2006, the trouble ended with the LRA's departure from Uganda. In 2007, High Adventure was invited to the Ongutoi Village, a rural community situated in the Abarilela County of Amura District, 6 hours north of Kampala.
This area had suffered 100% displacement and upon return people came back to fields and bushes. Infrastructure was gone, and so Ongutoi leaders asked High Adventure for medical assistance, beginning with a small outpatient clinic.
Within one month the area suffered record flooding, a malaria outbreak and loss of food supply. As High Adventure friends rallied, a devasting drought followed within 18 months. High Adventure maintained the regular supply of medicines every month and in 2009, planning for a 60-bed inpatient facility began. In 2010, the first 4 in-patient wards were constructed. 2011 plans will include an operating theater and an AIDS care facility.
High Adventure continues to provide crucial medicines each month, giving life-sustaining help to an average of 3,000 people, treating a variety of needs, with malaria requiring the most attention.
One to two babies are born every day at this center and require early life medicine support as well.
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Provide medicines for one day $17.00Provide medicines for one month $500.00
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