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:
FIRST GENERAL VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
July 2025
The first ever Shines volunteering program took place in July and August 2025. Building on the success of the medical camps, we hosted 10 volunteers in Masindi who worked on film-making, sports, teacher training, land titling and food and nutrition education.
MEDICAL CAMP 2025
October 2025
Building on the successes of the Medical Camps of 2023 and 2024, in October 2025 Shines held another camp in the village of Miirya at which, over two days, over 1,000 people were treated for a variety of conditions, entirely free of charge.
Volunteer doctors from the UK and elsewhere in Uganda joined local medical, healthcare and pharmacy teams, which happily coincided with a sight camp at Masindi Hospita, enabling several of our patients to be referred for cataract surgery 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.
