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About SHU

About Save for Health Uganda

Save for Health Uganda (SHU) is a local (Ugandan) not-for-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) formed in 2002 and registered on 7th March 2003. SHU is mandated to implement programmes aiming at improving people's access to quality healthcare services country-wide.

2002 Founded
11 Districts served
4 Field offices

SHU currently works in 11 districts namely: Luwero, Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Mityana, Kassanda, Bushenyi, Sheema, Mitooma, Iganga, Mayuge and Bugweri. The head office located in Nansana Municipality, Wakiso district and coordinates all activities while field offices in the districts of Luwero, Mityana, Bushenyi and Iganga serve as centers for community mobilization.

Currently working in:

Luwero Nakaseke Nakasongola Mityana Kassanda Bushenyi Sheema Mitooma Iganga Mayuge Bugweri
SHU team members during a strategy development meeting held in January 2024 at Hotel Brovad in Masaka City
SHU team - strategy meeting, Masaka City, January 2024

About SHU

About Save for Health Uganda

Save for Health Uganda (SHU) is a local (Ugandan) not-for-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) formed in 2002 and registered on 7th March 2003. SHU is mandated to implement programmes aiming at improving people's access to quality healthcare services country-wide.

SHU currently works in 11 districts namely: Luwero, Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Mityana, Kassanda, Bushenyi, Sheema, Mitooma, Iganga, Mayuge and Bugweri. The head office located in Nansana Municipality, Wakiso district and coordinates all activities while field offices in the districts of Luwero, Mityana, Bushenyi and Iganga serve as centers for community mobilization.

SHU team members during a strategy development meeting held in January 2024 at Hotel Brovad in Masaka City

Our Vision

Healthier families with simplified access to quality healthcare.

Our Mission

To enhance the quality of health of Ugandans through self-managed Community Health Financing (CHF) schemes.

Our Motto

Community solidarity for quality health.

To contribute to the reduction of the disease burden in Uganda

Working in Partnerships: SHU cannot cause impact alone but by working with key stakeholders in a mutually respectful environment.

Empowerment: SHU shall empower the target beneficiaries by letting people have control over their own lives and roles in a healthy environment; and by acting on issues they define as important.

Capacity Building: SHU shall proactively seek to develop its requisite core skills, management practices, strategies and systems to enhance its effectiveness, sustainability and ability to fulfill its mission.

Learning and sharing: SHU shall strive to develop internal and external Knowledge and share it through documentation of such knowledge, adopting best practices and applying the knowledge in a way that helps the staff, clients and partners to work more effectively and efficiently.

Social Accountability and Answerability: SHU will endeavor to make community structures and individuals answerable and accountable. This shall entail transparency, effectiveness, integrity and democratic arrangements while dealing with internal and external stakeholders.

SHU Conference 2023

Goal

To contribute to the reduction of the disease burden in Uganda

Program Principles

  • Working in Partnerships: SHU cannot cause impact alone but by working with key stakeholders in a mutually respectful environment.
  • Empowerment: SHU shall empower the target beneficiaries by letting people have control over their own lives and roles in a healthy environment; and by acting on issues they define as important.
  • Capacity Building: SHU shall proactively seek to develop its requisite core skills, management practices, strategies and systems to enhance its effectiveness, sustainability and ability to fulfill its mission.
  • Learning and sharing: SHU shall strive to develop internal and external Knowledge and share it through documentation of such knowledge, adopting best practices and applying the knowledge in a way that helps the staff, clients and partners to work more effectively and efficiently.
  • Social Accountability and Answerability: SHU will endeavor to make community structures and individuals answerable and accountable. This shall entail transparency, effectiveness, integrity and democratic arrangements while dealing with internal and external stakeholders.