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The Ruwenzori Foundation is a registered charity set up in 2004 with the aim of using art and culture as a means of positive development. Sculpture Residencies with Ugandan and international artists are held regularly.

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In its early days, the Foundation received crucial support from the British Council, Tate, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Art. Many individual artists and supporters have also generously donated and have been critical in allowing the Foundation to pursue its aims.

Since 2008 it has built an Art Centre, with bronze foundry, gallery and sculpture trail, on 60 acres of land in Kyemihoko village, ten kilometres north of Kasese in Western Uganda. The Foundation’s land encompasses a short stretch of the River Sebwe and climbs 300 feet into the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains.

Environmental restoration and community health have been the other focus of our efforts.

More recently, a further generous donation has enabled the purchase of extra  land and a new clinic build is well under way to replace, and vastly improve upon, the tiny cottage hospital originally established on site through a collaboration with the Rwenzori Health Foundation.