NEWS FROM SHINES
We regularly update this page with all the news from our projects in Uganda. Please check in regularly to see what has been going on.
Take a look at our newsletters:
Winter 2025/6:
Summer 2025:
Winter 2024/6:
Summer 2024:
Winter 2023/4:
SUMMER 2026 VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
July 2026
Building on the success of 2025, Shines' second general volunteering program took place in July 2026. Volunteers joined us in Masindi to work on film-making, football, textile art and creative writing.
MEDICAL CAMP 2025
October 2026
Building on the successes of the Medical Camps of 2023 to 2025, in October 2026 Shines held two camps in the villages of Bokwe and Miirya at which, over three days, over 1,000 people were treated for a variety of conditions, entirely free of charge.
Volunteer doctors, nurses, midwives and other specialists from the UK and elsewhere in Uganda joined local medical, healthcare and pharmacy teams, which happily coincided with a sight camp at Masindi Hospital, enabling several of our patients to be referred for eye treatments on the spot.
SHINES SCHOOL PIONEERS COMPLETE PRIMARY EDUCATION
November 2025
When Shines Primary School opened in 2019, only the first class of Primary )P1) was represented. Each year since then, that group of children have advanced through the school and a new year-group has joined to take their place.
2025 was the first year that we had all 7 years of Primary represented, and in November 2025 those "pioneers of 2019" sat their Primary Leavers' Examination and finished their primary education.
We are now fundraising to create a bursary program to enable those who were sponsored to progress to secondary school. Please donate if you can.
