Dr Jim and Suzanne Hansen

Co-FOUNDErs

JIm and Suzanne have organized, led and participated in over 40 medical mission trips since 1998 in South America, the Far East and Africa. They retired from the US Air Force in 2005, after serving 25 years, Jim as a board-certified cardiologist, and Suzanne as a nurse. After retirement, Jim did additional training in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease at the Gorgas Institute, Peru. He began volunteering exclusively at Kiwoko Hospital in 2008 in the HIV/AIDS department, Tuberculosis Clinic as well as continuing his cardiology service.

The Hansen’s have two happily married children and four unbelievable, amazing grandchildren!

Dan Kabugo

Director, Sonshine Christian Day Care and Nursery School, Kiwoko, Uganda

Dan Kabugo was just a child when the Ugandan civil war broke out in the 1980s and he has vivid memories of the devastation and destruction left in it’s wake. He has his own family now and works for an international non-profit organization that supports Kiwoko Hospital with funding for maternal-child health services. He received his Masters Degree in Public Health in 2017.

When trained staff from Kiwoko Hospital were leaving Kiwoko due to inadequate school facilities, he approached FOKUS Ministries for funding to build a primary school. The private school is now in it’s third year and garnered praise from the Ministry of Education as a “model school” in Uganda three years running! Hospital staff retention has never been higher and the children’s national exam scores are at the highest levels.

The school needs outside funding to continue to provide this valuable service to the Kiwoko community.

Kiwoko Hospital

Founded in 1989

In the mid 1980’s, Uganda was in the midst of the worst civil war in recent history. Thousands of children were left orphaned either by the war or by the ravages of the AIDS epidemic. Answering God’s call to help, an Irish missionary, Dr. Ian Clarke, established Kiwoko Hospital literally “in the bush” to serve the poor and forgotten.

Today, the Hospital is a beacon of hope and help to over 800,000 rural subsistence farmers and provides everything from community health to optometry, dentistry, and emergency treatment. They have five inpatient wards and the number one Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in all of Uganda.

Two training programs are also supported by Kiwoko Hospital, an accredited Nursing Program and an accredited Laboratory Technician Program. www.kiwokohospital.com