Donate to Bwindi

Bwindi Community Hospital costs about $900,000 a year to run.

This can be spent looking after a few patients in the West.
We use it to give high quality care to 60,000 people annually!

You can donate via our Justgiving page, or on the Bwindi Community Web Site.
Who we are
Friends of Bwindi Community Health Centre was set up in 2008 as a registered company and a charity in order to raise money to support the work of Bwindi Community Hospital.

UK Registered company number:    6666776

UK Registered Charity number:     1126843

Look at the FOBCHC entry in the UK charity commission register.

The organisation has four trustees who all have close links with Bwindi Community Hospital:

Paul Williams PDF Print E-mail
Paul Williams - Medical Superintendent at Bwindi Community HospitalPaul Williams is the Medical Superintendent at Bwindi Community Hospital, and has worked full time in the hospital since early 2006. He began the HIV/AIDS service in the area and initially ran community and maternity services at the hospital before becoming the leader of the organisation in August 2007.

He trained as a doctor in Newcastle upon Tyne and has a Masters in Public Health as well as training in tropical medicine. Before moving to Uganda he was a GP and began a primary care service for refugees living in the United Kingdom. He has also worked as a medicolegal expert in the documentation of torture and an honorary lecturer at the University of Durham.

He is a keen cyclist. His partner, Vicky, leads nursing at the Hospital. Both of them volunteer their time to their work in Africa.
 
Vicky Holt PDF Print E-mail
Vicky Holt - Head of Nursing at Bwindi Vicky Holt is the Principal Nursing Officer at Bwindi Community Hospital, although she complains that she spends most of her time doing administration or public relations. She leads a team of twenty five Ugandan nurses and midwives who work in the hospital and the community.

In her ‘real’ life she was a nurse in the North East of England with experience of adult medicine, accident and emergency and general practice. Before coming to Uganda she ran nursing in a primary care service for substance misuse.

She says “dealing with the drug users in Middlesbrough was much, much easier than working in Bwindi”.
 
Chris Sandbrook PDF Print E-mail
Chris SandbrookChris Sandbrook is a geographer with interests in conservation, development and tourism. He carried out his PhD research in Buhoma, evaluating the social, economic and environmental impacts of gorilla-tracking tourism at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

After completing his thesis he returned to the area to establish Bwindi Advanced Market Gardeners' Association (AMAGARA), a co-operative of local farmers producing vegetables to supply the tourism industry in the area. During his nearly two years in Buhoma, Chris lived next door to Bwindi Community Hospital, and has watched the centre grow from a mobile clinic under a tree to its impressive current status.

He continues to be closely involved with BCH in an advisory capacity, and visits Buhoma regularly.
 
David Williams PDF Print E-mail
David Williams - Company secretary for Friends of Bwindi Community Health CentreDavid Williams is a Chartered Accountant and is based in London. He currently works for FTI Consulting Limited, having qualified with Arthur Andersen and also worked for Ernst & Young.

He is the company secretary for Friends of Bwindi Community Health Centre