Health & Wellbeing Education & Young People 2023
Knowledge for Change (K4C)

Annual Report and Accounts 2023

Knowledge for Change is a UK charity working in partnership with the University of Salford to deliver health system strengthening, professional volunteering and clinical projects across Uganda and Tanzania. Their 2023 Annual Report — their first unimpeded by COVID since 2019 — covers the completion of a new paediatric rehabilitation unit at the Ninsiima Centre in Fort Portal, diabetes prevention work, cervical cancer screening, wound management and the placement of volunteers and Commonwealth Fellows. Income grew to £433,825 with a surplus of £23,893.

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Professional volunteer placements, student placements, diabetes (NEEDS) project, wound management and honey gauze project, cervical cancer screening and treatment, rehabilitation services for amputees, Nursing Now Challenge Fellowships, British Commonwealth Fellowship scheme, respectful care programme, health system strengthening, virtual volunteering

📊Key Metrics

Total income £433,825; excess of receipts over payments of £23,893 in 2023 Key Metric 1
Ninsiima Centre for Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities expanded — new paediatric unit and waiting area completed; clients now attending from across Uganda and DRC Key Metric 2
9 British Commonwealth Professional Fellows hosted; K4C established as independent NGO in Tanzania and Zanzibar with first 3 Tanzanian clinical staff recruited Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Diabetes project preventing diabetic foot ulcers and supporting amputee rehabilitation at Ninsiima Centre; clients drawn from across Uganda and neighbouring DRC
  • Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment Programme and Wound Management Project sustained throughout 2023; 6 professional volunteers placed at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar
  • Maternal and neonatal sepsis project approved for January 2024 launch across Uganda and Tanzania; Moshi expansion planned; student placement programme rebound post-COVID aided by new Zanzibar destination

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