Friends of Ruwenzori Foundation

Hospitals and Health CareCalifornia, United States2-10 Employees

Friends of Ruwenzori Foundation is a small nonprofit organization based in Orinda, California, operating in the hospitals and health care sector. Its mission is to reduce preventable deaths and promote healthy living in the Ruwenzori foothills of Uganda by supporting the region's only local hospital and by funding economic empowerment and health programs.

The foundation serves as a funding partner to KIDA (Kitojo Integrated Development Association), a Ugandan-run non-governmental organization that operates in the Ruteete Subcounty of the Kabarole District in Western Uganda. KIDA fights HIV/AIDS and poverty and runs a hospital that serves rural communities, with a mission to enable vulnerable individuals and communities to take care of their own lives. The organization emphasizes non-sectarian, humanitarian work and does not discriminate on the basis of religion, race, creed, or sexual orientation. Its name derives from the Ruwenzori mountains, a range whose name comes from a local term meaning 'rainmaker'.

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