The Mukwano Project

This project supports the Katuulo Organic Pineapple Cooperative to build, staff and maintain a health care centre in Katuulo, a remote rural community in Uganda. The health care centre will be accessed by twenty-five organic farm families who are members of the cooperative, as well as hundreds of people from the surrounding community.

Many women still die during childbirth and people suffer from malaria and HIV. The Katuulo health care centre will support the local community to maintain healthy lifestyles and reduce preventable disease and sickness.

Mukwano literally means 'a friend' in the local language of Lugandan.

This name reflects the emergence of the health care centre from a friendship between a group of Australians and the organic community in Africa. The idea for the Katuulo health care centre came from the community themselves, who have long recognised the need for improved health care services in the local area.

Mukwano supports farmers living and working on organic farms in Africa.