Formerly Minnesota International Health Volunteers

Improving the health of women, children and their communities around the world.

WellShare’s longest running programs are in Uganda, where we have worked since 1982. Over the years, WellShare has trained community health workers and traditional birth attendants, formed women’s associations, increased women’s potential for generating income, developed strategies in AIDS prevention and the care of people living with AIDS, created award-winning strategies for improving nutrition, and developed expertise in family planning (child spacing) and malaria prevention.

While the statistics show a continued need for our presence:

•    a typical Ugandan women will give birth to seven children in her lifetime;

•    malaria kills a child under 5 every 30 seconds and is a constant in 95 percent of Uganda; and,

•    Over one million children are orphaned by HIV.

WellShare programs have doubled family planning use in our project areas, distributed more than 100,000 long-lasting insecticide treated nets, and provided nutrition and economic support to thousands of families.

Uganda Malaria Communities Partnership Factsheet

Uganda Child Spacing Project Factsheet

Uganda Partnering for Posititive Livelihoods Program

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