Sleeping sickness kills tens of thousands of people every year and leaves many more permanently disabled. In this edition of IKARE News, you can find out more about IKARE Ltd's partnership with Shifo and the latest developments in our ongoing work to stamp out sleeping sickness in Northern Uganda.
It is now almost seven years since graduate vets from Makarere University helped avert a threatening convergence of two types of sleeping sickness in rural Uganda, administering treatment to thousands of cattle in remote areas of the country.
Charitable giving had been an integral part of IK’sculture since the firm was founded in 1989. But, as the partnership developed, we wanted to adopt a more structured approach to our donations and link them better to our own core business.