The Good Samaritan Health Clinic was opened in May 2004 when Enid Nazziwa, a widow with three children and a trained health worker with more than 10 years experience in the Churches HIV/AIDS Programme, started offering health services in this community. 70% of her patients are too poor to pay for their treatment. Already there has been a marked improvement in many of her patients, but inevitably many become so weak and eventually, because of their inadequate immune system as a result of the HIV virus, often succumb to an infectious disease such as Tuberculosis or Malaria and finally die.
One of the major concerns for those patient's who are also parents, is for their children - who will look after and provide for them in the future? Enid tells the story of how she came to set up the centre. She talks of her patients who were 'leaving children to her in their wills'. How could she refuse to grant them their dying wish? She wanted to be able to let them die in peace with the knowledge and reassurance that their children would be cared for.
The project is sponsoring 106 children. 100 attend school, 6 at home. 40 of the children stay with us. The rest stay with grandparents, parents or relatives, most of the children attend school in our community schools with a small percentage attending boarding schools