SOZO Dream Foundation sends teams of Ugandan doctors, medical students and volunteers into hard-to-reach communities with free medical care and the hope of Jesus. It is led by Dr. Rebecca Hunter.
Dr. Rebecca Hunter at an outreach consultation table.
8,000+people seen at outreaches
15districts served
2022first outreach
3doctors helped to graduate
What “SOZO” means
Saved. Healed. Made whole.
Sozo is the Greek word the New Testament uses for being saved, healed and made whole, and Rebecca adds, in that order. Healing a body is good. A whole life is better.
That is why every outreach brings two things: the best medical care the team can give, and the good news of Jesus, offered freely to anyone who wants to hear it.
Why we go
“I remember growing up in a small village that had nothing close to a clinic or drug shop. And how my Auntie … would carry me on her back, and walked several kilometers to the nearest clinic. … I remember vowing to myself that I would grow up to be the one who takes the services to the people.”
Rebecca was orphaned as a small child in Masaka District, came to faith in Jesus as a teenage runaway in Kampala, and trained as a doctor at Kampala International University. In 2022, still a medical student, she led her first free outreach. She hasn’t stopped since.
Clinics lasting a day to a week, in places with no hospital nearby. Consultations, lab tests, medicines, referrals and health education, all free, often set up under trees or in school yards.
Care that follows up
Some patients need more than one day can give. SOZO keeps a list, raises support, and walks with them to surgery and specialist care.
Finish-line scholarships
Help for final-year medical and nursing students who would otherwise drop out over fees. Three of them are now doctors, two running ministries of their own.
Community projects
When the team finds a need it can meet, it acts: five classrooms for a school meeting under a tarp, a home for a refugee family, health lessons for schoolgirls.
Where we’ve been
From Karamoja to the shores of Lake Victoria
Since 2022, SOZO teams have held outreaches in 15 districts, from mountain villages in the far northeast to a fishing community on Lake Victoria and an island on the Kenyan border.
Some days a few hundred people come. In Gulu in 2023, about 2,500 did, and the team handed out the last bag of medicine at 7:30 at night.
Districts where SOZO has held outreaches or projects since 2022.
One life
The boy who had never walked
At a one-day village camp, the team met a little boy who had never walked. There was nothing more they could do for him that day. Rebecca asked to follow him up anyway.
Faithful gifts from supporters paid for the medical and surgical care he needed. A year later his mother brought him back to see the doctors, running around and full of life.
That is what a gift to SOZO does. It doesn’t stop at the end of the clinic day.
