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Uganda Telecom is Uganda’s first Telecommunication operator. UTL was the first company to own a Full Telecommunications Operator license, having evolved from the earlier East African Post & Telecom Corporation in the 1970’s, and the Uganda Post and Telecom Corporation in the 1980’s and 1990’s. UTL was incorporated in 1998 as a Public Limited Liability Company and has since embarked on an unrivalled evolution. Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) is Uganda’s national fixed line, mobile and Internet provider. In 2007 LAP GreenN acquired 69% of its shares, and the Government of Uganda holds the remaining 31% of shares. Uganda Telecom is Uganda’s leading telecommunications innovator with its missions to deliver the most innovative communication solutions in Uganda. Uganda Telecom provides voice and data communication solutions that include fixed telephony, mobile telephony, ISP and Data services. UTL launched the Next Generation Network that delivers all voice, data and even video services over one network over IP. Uganda Telecom has the largest fixed line network and is also the largest ISP in the country, it has the only 3G network in Uganda and offers video telephony, high speed internet, video and audio streaming, live television and MMS. Uganda Telecom also provides BlackBerry© services. About LAP GreenN: LAP GreenN is a telecommunications provider with operations in East and West Africa that offers quality mobile and fixed voice, data, and Internet services to customers across (update accordingly: UTL/Gemtel/GreenN CI). LAP GreenN’s goal is to create a strong pan African brand that focuses on recruiting and developing local talents throughout our companies, allowing us to grow our subscriber base with satisfied customers. In doing so, we will reach our goal of being in the top 50 telecom providers worldwide.

In the forefront of health training in Uganda – 350 resident students attend the hospital’s schools for nursing, laboratory & anaesthesia assistants and for the training of Health Educators and AIDS counsellors. The hospital is also a university teaching site for the Government University of Gulu Faculty of Medicine, which was inaugurated in 2003/2004. The hospital also trains “on the job” masons, carpenters, electricians. More than “just” a hospital

According to a 2003 analysis**, most of the Hospital’s revenues are retained locally in the form of employee wages and purchases. Up to 60% of wages and 90% of funds lent to the staff by the Hospital’s interest-free loan cooperative are used to pay for the education of their dependent children. The study analysed more than 180 small businesses around the hospital and discovered that their survival mostly depends on the Hospital, through purchases made by staff, patient’s family and visitors. According to this study, each dollar “invested” in Lacor Hospital as donated funds yields at least twice this amount in direct and indirect revenues in the local economic context. Another recent study by Fondazione Lang Italia has measured the Sroi (Social Return on Investment) of donations to the hospital. The study has shown that each euro donated generates 2.74 euro in the local environment.

Promoting work ethics based on transparency, responsibility and refusal of corruption – With more than 70% of the budget being covered through external support, the hospital depends on the donors’ trust. Management and staff do their best to deserve that trust through careful accounting of annual activities and implementation of audits by international accounting and clinical experts.