Kellermann Foundation

Our overall goal is to provide hope and health to the people of southwest Uganda through practical, economically sustainable programs that tackle the root causes of extreme poverty and poor health. Some of our goals to achieve this are:
• Provide low-cost, high quality healthcare to a region of 120,000 inhabitants
• Reduce pediatric mortality rate and malnutrition deaths
• Increase enrollment in the eQuality Health Membership plan
• Increase access to safe childbirth
• Continue community outreach and health education
• Educate compassionate, highly capable RN-level nurses
• Build additional permanent homes for Batwa families
• Provide adult education, skill development, and income generation opportunities for Batwa adults
• Provide educational support for Batwa students at the primary and secondary levels.
• Preserve Batwa culture through the Batwa Experience living history site.
• Provide Christian spiritual outreach and counseling to improve mental and spiritual health

• Continue and improve current programs to address the needs of the displaced Batwa pygmies and other impoverished tribal groups in our service area.
• Increase the number of trained nurses available to staff hospital and community clinics.
• Strengthen our capacity to support programs through increased fundraising efforts.
• Plan for strategic growth of the hospital and nursing school as a step toward greater sustainability.
• Connect volunteers and prospective donors through site visits to Bwindi.
• Build strategic partnerships with other nonprofit organizations to increase our capacity to provide services in the area.
• Strengthen partnerships with U.S. medical facilities & nursing schools, as well as corporations with an interest in joining our work.

• A strong board, competent and committed staff, attention to nonprofit best practices, and faith-based approach to practical, sustainable solutions help us focus our efforts for the greatest impact.
• The staff at BCH, BDP, UNSB are hired based on their integrity, creativity, faith, capabilities, ability to manage programs independently and collaboratively with partners.
• BCH has been rated the best-performing hospital in Uganda since 2009 by the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau.
• Partnerships with US universities and institutions that provide expertise and research assistance.
• The BDP focuses on areas that the indigenous Batwa have identified as their greatest need, especially education and vocational training.
• Acquisition of land for the Batwa allows agricultural development and opportunities to build permanent homes.
• UNSB is a model for nursing education in the developing world.
• Dozens of volunteers to Uganda annually support our work with a variety of skills.

We have built a hospital, remote clinics, nursing school, homes, nursery and primary schools, community bandas, and provided general community development. In 2022 alone, we have accomplished the following:
• Supported more than 1,275 children in education at every level from nursery through secondary school with uniforms, shoes, mattresses and other supplies, and provided school lunches for over 1,275 students
• Provided tuition, tutoring and transportation during breaks for 52 Batwa students at Bishops’ Primary School (boarding school)
• Conducted Career Day to guide students to a successful vocation
• Provided flood relief to Batwa families including food and seed to replant crops
• Constructed 20 Batwa homes and introduced interlocking brick-making
• Provided 2 electric sewing machines
• Built 1 school expansion
• Repaired and expanded 2 schools
• Trained Batwa in sustainable agriculture and animal husbandry; expanded gardens in settlements and schools; supplied families with chickens, ducks, pigs, goats and rabbits
• Sold hundreds of items made by Batwa women through the Batwa Women’s Centre including uniforms, dresses, jewelry, baskets and bags
• Provided spiritual care in settlements and schools in the form of One-Story Bible teams, Jesus Film Project, reconciliation training, grief counseling and mentoring
• Purchased land for a dental-vision clinic
• Reduced maternal deaths during delivery to zero
• Delivered 1,800 babies with 97.3% resulting in live births; 95% of newborns completed recommended schedule of newborn check-ups
• Cared for over 1,000 critically ill children with 98% recovery rate for malnutrition
• Treated 1,065 HIV-positive patients with 91% in viral load monitoring and achieved 100% success in the prevention of HIV mother-to-child transmission
• Provided over 1,500 surgeries with less than 1% sepsis rate
• Conducted daily community outreach programs with topics such as mental health, domestic violence, alcohol rehabilitation and health education
• Provided dental and eye programs to an average of 80 patients daily
• Hosted surgical camps for skeletal, urinary and reproductive diseases