Where we’ve been
Since 2022, SOZO teams have carried medicines, tents and the gospel into 15 districts of Uganda. Here is the record so far.
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2026
A fishing village on Lake Victoria
A densely populated fishing community served by one small health centre. Two days of free care, an evening gospel meeting, and a list of patients to follow up for surgery.
2025
Three days with Hands For An African Child
Close to 1,000 people received free treatment, consultations and referrals. Every surgical case was referred on.
A yearly tradition
Every March since 2023, SOZO has served in Buliika alongside Faces With Names International and Dove Ministries. In 2025 about 1,300 people were seen over four days, and ultrasound scans were offered for the first time, a gift to many expectant mothers.
Until the sun set
With Reproductive Health Uganda and the Kumi district health team, and SOZO team members from three districts so patients could be served in their own language. A little over 500 people received care.
2024
Girls’ health in schools
Visits to schools to share the gospel and teach girls about menstrual health and period poverty.
Back to Gulu
Two vans of supplies, an 8–10 hour drive, three days. Over 1,000 people from two very hard-to-reach areas came for free care.
On the border
A day on an island community on the Uganda–Kenya border, home to labourers and refugees. With the District Health Officer’s team, close to 500 people received care.
750 in a day
With the Hummingbird Foundation, a team from Amref Uganda and the district health team, SOZO saw more than 600 adults and about 150 children, while partners immunised children and provided reproductive health care.
Health education in the east
Outreaches in Kamuli and Jinja districts, with community health education at the centre: malaria, malnutrition, sickle cell and dental disease.
2023
A week in Karamoja
A week-long medical camp in one of Uganda’s hardest-to-reach regions, set up under trees and in school yards beneath the Napak mountains. On market day the crowds were so large the team ran out of some medicines.
Expecting hundreds. 2,500 came.
Forty medical students and pre-interns travelled to Gulu hoping many would come. About 2,500 people did. The last bag of medicine was handed out at 7:30 pm, and more than 100 people gave their lives to Jesus.
23 medical students, one weekend
Twenty-three fourth- and fifth-year medical students gave up a weekend to see 225 patients in a remote corner of Kiryandongo.
From a tarp to five classrooms
Rebecca found a village primary school meeting under a ragged tarp in the bush. With friends and supporters, the team built five classrooms with doors and chalkboards, delivered a truckload of desks, and put in a proper latrine. The school has since grown from about 70 pupils to 130.
Nine hours of dust, then 700 patients
A local radio station advertised the outreach for free and gave the team airtime to teach about HIV and sickle cell disease. When the community turned up expecting an extra day, the team stayed. Over 700 patients were seen and 40 people gave their lives to Jesus.
A home for a refugee family
In the Panyadholi refugee settlement, the team helped a South Sudanese family of ten who had been living in a tent after storms destroyed their mud house. Together with partners, SOZO built them a permanent home.
With Amazing Grace Ministries
A day of free medical care in Luwero District, alongside Amazing Grace Ministries.
2022
A community blood drive
SOZO sponsored a blood drive in Kiryandongo. The blood bank was thrilled with the turnout.
Where it began
SOZO’s first mission: three village medical camps in western Uganda with Next Generation Ministries, followed by an outreach to fellow medical students at Kampala International University. Twelve hours on the road to get there.
Numbers come from SOZO’s own field reports and are lower bounds. Many outreaches didn’t record a count at all.
The next outreach is already being planned.
Medicines are the biggest cost of every outreach. Your gift helps decide how many people the team can treat.