From community needs
to practical solutions.

Healthier Communities

Primary Health & Outreach

Community outreach and health promotion focused on prevention, early action and stronger links between communities and health services. Karucan mobilises village health teams, conducts health promotion at markets, fishing landings and workplaces, and supports referral pathways to District Health Teams and hospitals.

Infectious Disease

TB Prevention, Control & Care

Community awareness and clinical support that contributes to prevention, early identification and linkage to treatment. Under the Stop TB Partnership ↗'s TB REACH Wave, Karucan strengthens private health-facility TB services, deploys satellite and mobile clinics to fishing communities, mines and prisons, and operates mobile-phone TB reporting tools for village health team referral and contact tracing. Integrated TB-HIV activities include isoniazid preventive therapy for PLHIV and HIV counselling and testing for TB patients.

Maternal & Child Health

Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

Antenatal care, immunisation, nutrition screening and under-5 services delivered close to where families live. Karucan integrates maternal and child health into routine clinical care and HIV/AIDS activities, with referral links to Bwera, Bundibugyo and Fort Portal Regional Referral hospitals.

NCD Prevention

Obesity Prevention & NCD Response

Awareness campaigns, community screening and professional training targeting obesity in the Rwenzori Sub-region. Recognised by the World Obesity Federation ↗ as part of its Holistic Approach Network, Karucan contributes a community-level perspective to Africa's response to obesity and related non-communicable diseases.

Liver Health

Liver Health Awareness & Screening

Each year during Global Liver Awareness Week — with the Global Liver Institute ↗ — Karucan Foundation leads liver-health screening and education events across Uganda, focused on early detection and prevention. As a coalition member of the African Hepatitis B Advocacy Coalition ↗, Karucan contributes community-level engagement to hepatitis B and broader liver-disease response.

Flagship Programme

Digital Health for Rural Youth

A technology-enabled programme designed to improve access to trustworthy health information, digital health navigation and referral pathways for young people in rural communities. Combines a youth-friendly mobile platform, USSD/SMS pathways for low-bandwidth environments, and youth participation in content design.

Opportunity

Livelihoods & Food Security

Sustainable agriculture, household nutrition gardens, women-led enterprise and skills training that improve income, dignity and resilience. Karucan's livelihoods work complements health programming — better nutrition supports recovery and prevention, and income diversification extends the impact of every outreach contact.

Resilience

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Safe-water infrastructure, household sanitation and hygiene promotion that reduce preventable illness. Karucan's WASH work is delivered alongside health and livelihoods so that investments in water infrastructure translate into measurable reductions in water-borne disease.

Resilience

Water, Natural Resources & Environmental Management (WANEMA)

WANEMA protects ecosystems while supporting livelihoods, through seven priority pillars:

• Freshwater Resource Management — ensuring long-term availability, reliability and quality of freshwater for domestic use, sanitation, agriculture and industry.
• Ecosystem Protection & Afforestation — expanding forest, tree and wetland coverage, restoring bare hills and protecting fragile mountainous ecosystems.
• Land Use & Sustainable Management — strengthening physical planning, land administration and tenure security to prevent chaotic urban sprawl and agricultural encroachment.
• Environmental Quality & Pollution Control — controlling waste, managing hazardous chemicals and restoring air, land and water quality.
• Climate Resilience & Low Emissions — promoting climate-resilient development, clean energy alternatives and green economic models.
• Disaster Risk Reduction — early-warning frameworks and mitigation policies to minimise human and economic losses from natural hazards.
• Sustainable Value Addition — green enterprises that add value to timber, ecotourism and water by-products to raise household incomes.

Partners & affiliations: Ministry of Water and Environment of the Republic of Uganda ↗ (Rural Water & Sanitation, Green Climate Fund), Kasese District Local Government — departments of WASH, Natural Resources & Environment, Production & Agriculture, and Disaster & Emergency Response — plus NGO/INGO WASH networks and the Uganda Water & Sanitation Hygiene Network, Kampala.