Recently a team of 19 corporate volunteers visited our Suubi Complex, in Lubanda Village, Uganda. They held workshops in a variety of activities. Check out the details and see photos of their visit here.

Suubi Complex, in Lubanda Village, has been a hive of activity over the last few weeks. Three longer term volunteers in Ian Mc Innes, Hannah Jansen and Rachel Walker arrived over the Christmas, New Year period and have settled in well. Spending between six weeks to six months at the centre, they will be turning their hand to a variety of activities, Read more about it here.

Everyone was thrilled recently when a connection between Suubi Community Health Clinic and Kyabram Health services was formalised. Read more about it here.

Throughout October and early November five Suubi youth undertook training in coffee grafting at one of the recognised coffee farms in Lwengo district. They have now returned to Suubi to teach other interested youth their new found skills. For more information and photos check it out here.

Much of todays Hug Annual General Meeting was spent celebrating the successes of the past 12 months, including the addition of the Suubi Community Health Clinic to our complex in Lubanda Village, Uganda.  You are sure to enjoy reading the Annual Report, which gives a fantastic over view of everything that has been achieved over the past 12 months. 

We are thrilled that all of our dedicated board members have agreed to continue on for a further term. As a board, we look forward to continuing to create an environment whereby both Ugandans and Australian can learn and grow with one another. (HUG - Help Us Grow)

The 2nd annual Suubi Music, Dance and Drama Festival was held at Kyasonko Primary School last weekend. The theme for the day was  'Sanitation and Health in Schools'. All eight participating primary schools brilliantly passed on the message through five different performances; a poem, folk song, creative dance, traditional dance and short play. Check out the fabulous photos and all the results on the Suubi up date blog.

As the day progressed a surprise was in store! Read more here.

After a severe storm hit Lubanda village in mid September we are happy to let everyone know that people who were affected are now starting to get back on their feet. Read about the village community spirit and see photos of rebuilding here.

We are thrilled to let everyone know that our recently constructed Suubi Community Health Clinic began treating patients on August 1st 2011. We would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped to make the clinic a reality. Read all about the very exciting first week at the clinic here.

We are thrilled to advise that we have recently finalised the formation of a partnership between the Kyabram (Australia) and Masaka (Uganda) Rotary Clubs. Not only will this provide an excellent cultural link between the two clubs, it will also have an added benefit for anyone wishing to make a donation to HUG. 

The partnership has enabled us to have our Suubi project excepted to be part of Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd (RAWCS). One of the huge benefits of this is that all donations made to HUG can now be tax deductible.