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Laurence J Betts Ltd. contributes a percentage of its annual profits to carefully selected charities all over the world. One such charity is Friends of Kagando which raises funds for the Kagando Hospital. Their needs are unimaginable as can be attested to by our Managing Director, Stephen Betts who worked there for two-and-a-half years and last visited in 2015.

Friends of Kagando is a UK-based charitable trust set up in 2003 and managed by a board of Trustees who are past long-term workers at Kagando or regular visitors. The charity aims to support Kagando by raising funds and sending equipment and to encourage friends and colleagues working there by correspondence and visits from people with clinical, technical, management, educational, pastoral and fund-raising expertise. Administration costs are low. Transfers of accountable funds are direct to the leadership in Kagando. It maintains a newsletter mailing list and is always looking for partners and volunteers to support what we believe has become a ‘centre of excellence’ in Rural Uganda.

KAGANDO Rural Development Centre (KARUDEC) is a health care and education project managed by the Church of Uganda based around Kagando Hospital (250 beds).

Kagando lies in the South-Eastern foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains on a small West-facing hill looking out across a fertile valley, 20 km from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo and 5 km North of the Equator. On the other side the hill looks out towards the Western Rift Valley with the nearby Queen Elizabeth National Park and the Kizinga Channel linking Lake George and Lake Edward.

The charity keep their operating costs as low as possible so virtually all of their income is spent to the benefit of Kagando and the surrounding area.