Opening new horizons
In 2025 we started our first partnership in Uganda. After two decades of continuous work in Ethiopia, it is the second country where Fundación ADS is bringing its direct cooperation model.
A new chapter
With our work in Ethiopia firmly established, Fundación ADS has begun to take its model to new places where access to healthcare is still a daily challenge. Uganda is the first step. There, we can apply what we have learned over the years without changing the way we work: direct presence, local partnerships and a long-term commitment to communities.
With Mulago Hill Health Foundation
In Uganda we work with Mulago Hill Health Foundation, a local organisation that cares for cancer patients and their families at the Cancer Care Home of the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala, the leading cancer centre in East Africa.
It all started in January 2024, when the Cancer Care Home kitchen opened. Every day, it serves hot meals to more than 200 patients and their carers. In the first year alone, it served over 70,000 meals, without missing a single day. They soon realised that cancer is much more than a medical condition. The people staying at the Care Home also needed transport, laboratory tests, prostheses, medicines, clothing and other essentials: things that an overstretched health system cannot cover. In 2025 they went a step further and set up Mulago Hill Health Foundation, so they could offer broader, longer-lasting support.
Our collaboration with Mulago Hill Health Foundation focuses on a basic and often overlooked need: patients’ day-to-day living conditions. These patients cannot travel during treatment, because of their health or their finances. So they stay at the Care Home for a while. We are building new showers and toilets that ensure dignity and well-being
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Would you like to be part of this new chapter?
If you believe in direct cooperation and would like to join us in this new chapter, there are many ways to do so.