Healthy Child Uganda (HCU) is a community-based partnership that works with local Ugandan citizens to identify and solve the problems that most impact their children's health. Uganda has one of the highest child death rates in the world, and many of these deaths are due to preventable or curable illnesses such as malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea, measles and meningitis. Known locally as Omwaana N'amagara Marungi, HCU helps develop training programs and provide support services for children. HCU is committed to three guiding principles: participatory development, health promotion and sustainability.

Healthy Child Uganda reaches approximately 15,000 Ugandan children under five annually.  Cumulatively they have reached over 25,000 children since project inception.  Whole villages where HCU works benefit from community initiatives such as micro projects and community action planning.

Recent projects in Uganda include:

• Bed Nets Initiative, as of June 2008 HCU has distributed over 12,000 bed nets to pregnant mothers and children under five. Research shows that in children under five who sleep under insecticide treated nets lower child mortality rates by 17%!