Saving Children in Uganda

1 child in 7 dies before age 5
In Mbarara alone, 13,000 children under 5 die each year - thousands more ages 6 to 12
Over 60% die from malaria, dysentery and pneumonia
Holy Innocents Children's Hospital is saving countless children's lives (more…)
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Holy Innocents' Dr. Dora (middle) confers with Dr. Priscilla and RN Liz of Children's Hospital Oakland during latest mission

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Festo's Story...

This is the story of Festo, a 10-year old boy from Mbarara District. Festo lived alone with his mother – his father and two brothers had already died from malaria. To his mother’s great concern, Festo too began showing signs of malaria – fever, dizziness, vomiting. Hs mother treated him for four days with chloroquine tablets from a local pharmacy. When he didn’t improve, she switched to herbal remedies. Festo continued to worsen for another 10 days, and eventually fell into a coma. His mother panicked, and (more…)

Third Annual Run4Innocents Underway!
Join our Half Marathon Fundraiser April 22, 2012

Join our Run4Innocents Half Marathon fundraiser now, & help support Holy Innocents Children's Hospital! If you can run or walk a half marathon, you can help save children's lives at the hospital! To sign up for this San Diego event, click on the button below.

Jump for Joy...

Baby Joy (left) came to Holy Innocents in mid-2010 as a critically ill infant. Our medical team gave her the same high level of care that we give all children, and Baby Joy recovered completely. Her father wrote us, “I really thank God for the work you are doing on the lives of our children in Uganda…. My Baby Joy got enough care from this hospital and now she is well

since July.” Recently we received another message: “I hope you remember us. I am Joy's father and i wanted to tell you that she is doing well and these days she has started to take some stapes [steps] in walking…. So we thank God for you and we pray that He bless you because your team saved Joy.” Thanks to all our supporters who help save children like Baby Joy!

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Latest Medical Mission Brings Training, Treatment to Children of Mbarara

Oct. 2010 - Twenty-two medical professionals and students from around the world, including personnel from University of San Diego, Children’s Hospital Oakland and AmeriCares, spent eight days working at Holy Innocents Children’s Hospital (HICH) in Mbarara this summer.

Our team brought 1,000 pounds of supplies to HICH: IVs, medications, suture supplies, oxygen tubing/masks/CPAP devices, stethoscopes and more. They established a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Ward II to help severely ill newborns being transferred to HICH from a local government hospital. During the trip alone seven newborns were treated and saved who would have died if the NICU had not been operational. (read more...)

What We’re Doing:

We’re building a children’s hospital!

Holy Innocents Children’s Hospital Uganda, Inc. is working to bring better health to all children of Mbarara, Uganda and its surrounding villages through better medical care and prevention. We’re non-profit, non-sectarian and non-political, with only one focus: better health for a better life for children in one small part of the world. One hundred percent of our time and effort is focused on achieving this objective via our fundraising and training activities to support the building, staffing and operation of a children’s hospital in Mbarara, Uganda. (more...)

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