Since 2012
Our journey
WorldProject began with small-scale cooperation and healthcare initiatives. Over time, each project changed the way we worked: from short-term interventions to permanent infrastructure, local professional development and projects designed to become increasingly self-sustaining.
That evolution eventually led to the two long-term projects at the centre of WorldProject today: Kikaya Medical Center and Bioksanland.
Origins
Past projectNorthern India
WorldProject’s story began in northern India, where our first expedition focused on supporting Tibetan refugee communities and learning from organisations already working locally. Rather than arriving with a predefined project, we set out to identify local NGOs doing meaningful work, understand their needs and explore how we could build longer-term collaborations.
We worked alongside several local organisations, but our main collaboration developed around the hospital serving the Tibetan refugee community. There, we established a close relationship with the organisation responsible for the hospital and particularly with its Director of Nursing, laying the foundations for a longer-term project and shaping many of the principles that would later guide WorldProject.
That first experience helped define an approach we still believe in today: listen first, work with people and organisations already rooted in their communities, and build relationships before designing solutions.
2012–2013
Early workFirst steps in Uganda
What began as a trip among friends led us to visit an orphanage in Entebbe and encounter a reality that would ultimately change the direction of WorldProject. The needs we discovered led us to temporarily put our developing project with Tibetan refugees in India on hold and begin a new chapter in Uganda.
During those early years, we developed a mobile clinic that visited orphanages, hospitals and other local organisations, combining the provision of resources with training activities and a number of medical camps. We placed particular emphasis on areas such as first aid and oral hygiene, aiming to ensure that each intervention also helped leave useful knowledge with the people and professionals we worked alongside.
This first phase culminated in a surgical expedition organised in coordination with Wakiso Regional Hospital, during which 28 people underwent surgery. That experience not only marked the end of our first stage in Entebbe; it would also lead us to the next major chapter in WorldProject's story.
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Our first steps in Uganda
A look back at WorldProject’s early years in Uganda, when we began learning from the local context and developing our first initiatives in the country.
2014–2020
Past projectZinga Island
From field work to long-term infrastructure
During that surgical expedition, we met a nurse from the hospital who was involved in a community project on the islands of Lake Victoria. After hearing about her work, we travelled to visit the project ourselves, and that encounter became the beginning of a collaboration that would continue for several years.
We initially supported the creation and development of a clinic, but as we learned more about the community, the project gradually expanded. Over the years, we collaborated on the development of a school and dormitories, wells and access to water, perimeter fencing, the planting of fruit and ornamental trees, and the acquisition of both land and water transport.
Training, medical and educational equipment, materials and many other smaller initiatives were added along the way, helping strengthen local infrastructure and day-to-day capacity. Zinga became WorldProject's first truly long-term and integrated project in Uganda.
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Zinga in action
A look back at one of the projects that shaped WorldProject’s early years in Uganda.
2019–present
Current projectKikaya
From community health initiatives to a permanent medical centre
WorldProject began a new phase of work in Kikaya in 2019, collaborating on healthcare, training and community initiatives. In 2020, the organisation took a larger role in local healthcare activities around the existing Chloe Clinic while construction began on a larger permanent medical centre.
The new Kikaya Medical Center became fully operational in 2022 and has continued to evolve ever since. Today, the project combines healthcare services with prevention, community health initiatives and continuous professional development for the local healthcare team.
The centre continues to strengthen its infrastructure and local capacity, with the long-term objective of building a healthcare project increasingly led and sustained from within the community.
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Current projectBioksanland
From one hectare to a living laboratory
Bioksanland began in February 2020 with the acquisition of one hectare of land near Kikaya. Agriculture, tree planting and solar energy formed the first layer of a project designed to explore practical approaches to sustainability and local development.
Construction of the Research and Sustainable Development Center began in 2021 and was completed in 2022. Since then, Bioksanland has continued to grow into a platform combining sustainable agriculture, hydroponics, renewable energy, local production and applied research.
Today, Bioksanland functions as a living laboratory where practical solutions can be tested, improved and increasingly managed by the local team.
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Two projects. One long-term direction.
Kikaya Medical Center and Bioksanland now form the core of WorldProject's work in Uganda: healthcare and sustainable innovation connected by the same objective — strengthening local capacity and building projects designed to last.