Background History

WHO WE ARE

Organization Background

To date, Kitovu Mobile remains an ambitious, transparent, inspiring, innovating and outstanding health and development organization with a wide-ranging set of goals and strategies to improve health and wellbeing marginalized communities in greater Masaka districts.

  • HIV/AIDS and GBV Prevention
  • Comprehensive HIV/AIDS and TB Care and Treatment
  • Youth and Women socio-economic empowerment
  • Health systems strengthening

KEY MILESTONES

From a Humble Beginning

SR. URSULA SHARPE -
FOUNDER OF KITOVU MOBILE

A nun with the Medical Missionaries of Mary, founded Kitovu Mobile in 1987 in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Greater Masaka especially Rakai and Kyotera, Uganda. Initially treating patients at Kitovu Hospital health center in Masaka, she expanded her reach by training local healthcare workers and establishing a MOBILE treatment program to deliver care to rural villages, hence the name KITOVU MOBILE.

Witnessing the struggles of orphans affected by HIV/AIDS, Sr. Ursula also initiated an Orphan Program providing holistic support, including education, grief counseling, and economic empowerment.

Today, Kitovu Mobile is a renowned organization with over 35 years of experience, operating in nine districts of the Greater Masaka region and offering a range of Health and Community empowerment programs to marginalized communities.

1987 - 1999

  • The Home-Based Care (HBC) was the first program that benefited 111 outreach centres providing counselling, HIV Testing, medical and social support to 5,500 clients.
  • Education and socioeconomic support program supported 8000 orphans and their families.
  • Mobile Farm Schools program initiated in 1998 benefited over 4000 Teenage School Dropouts (TDOS) with modern sustainable agricultural skills in 5 greater Masaka districts.

2000 - 2009

  • Palliative care services introduced on 2000 and has since benefited over 7,500 families and clients with terminal illnesses

2010 - 2019

  • Kitovu Mobile (KM) provided Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) services to 1500 Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV). Today, KM Health centre III provides HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) services, Palliative care services and general health care services.

2020 - 2023

  • Kindernothilfe (KNH) funded a Child Rights Situation Analysis (CRSA) and subsequent 5-year Mobile Farms schools project to improve children and women’s rights in Kyamuliibwa, Kabira and Lwankoni Subcounties.
  • One-year COVID-19 vaccination grant,
  • 4-year German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) project: In partnership with the Grandmothers Consortium, to strengthening governmental and non-governmental monitoring mechanisms for the implementation of Uganda’s social policies in Kyotera district.
  • Annual renewable Center for Disease Control (CDC) DREAMS projects: Strengthening the most vulnerable and most at risk Adolescent Girls and Young Women aged 09-24
  • 2-year Grief and Bereavement: To enhance quality results for Grief and Bereavement care at Kitovu Mobile hospice in Buddu region, covering Masaka. Lwengo and Kyotera districts
  • 3-year Quality of death and Dying: To improve end-of-life experiences for patients living with advanced disease and their families by promoting patient and family-centered models of care to improve the quality of death and dying.
  • And more milestones in the last 3 years to improve Kitovu Mobile’s health care and economic support to vulnerable communities in Masaka region.