Katine Growing From Strength to Strength

Posted to the web 7 August 2008 Richard Kavuma JOSHUA KYALLO is the Country Director for the African Medical Research Foundation (Amref). Among other things, the 50-year-old NGO is implementing the Katine Project in Soroti District, in which The Weekly Observer is a partner. RICHARD M. KAVUMA spoke to him about Amref's work in Katine and elsewhere in Uganda. Amref is marking 50 years; what lessons you have learnt over the decades? Amref was founded around 1957 on the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro by three [non-African] medical doctors who were trying to bring healthcare to rural communities. And one of the lessons that Amref learnt right at the start was the role of communities in health development. Amref has learnt that unless communities are fully engaged and become an integral and active part of the health system rather than... [read full story]