Email: info@sachmbarara.org
SACH Mbarara
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Background
St. Augustine Community Health Centre as known as SACH has been in existence since 2015. It’s a registered community-based organization started by members to increase access to quality sexual and reproductive health services and information. Our target is the vulnerable and poor adolescents, young women and men.
We are currently operating in the districts of Mbarara, Mbarara City, Isingiro, Ntangamo, Bushenyi and Sheema in western Uganda.
We support provision of SRH services through partnership with public and private healthcare facilities that provide modern family planning, post abortion care, HIV/AIDS care and treatment, STD/STI management and cervical cancer screening services.
Target populations
- Young women and girls in need of post abortion care and family planning options
- Young people in school and out of school who need comprehensive sex education
- Women and girls in and around refugee settlements
- Disabled women and girls
- Sex workers and the LGBIQT community we can access
- Rural poor women and girls
Our Innovations
Community volunteers
We work with 50 community volunteers spread across our areas of work. These include students from the universities around, VHTs, CHEWs and other members’ leaders identified by our target populations. These have been fully trained to offer counselling and provide medication for safe abortion self-care services. They report monthly to us.
Private sector/private health facilities
We have trained 15 private clinic and supported them to be leading SRH service providers. We are still having 10 active as of now who are referral sites for our community volunteers.
Self-care
We have successfully pioneered training and supporting community volunteers to offer companionship to women and girls who need safe abortion services. They are trained and equipped with MA medicines ready to distribute them. It’s an innovation that has not been embraced in our areas but works as a key strategy to eliminate abortion stigma and reduce the costs especially in the rural poor communities.
Our Address
Ntare Road Opposite Ntare School, Mbarara city North, Mbarara City, Uganda
Contact Number
+256 703 962 281
+256 782 141 191