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Empowering the sick and vulnerable
A peer-led non-profit standing alongside adolescents and adults living with Type 1 Diabetes in Kasese, Uganda — combining clinical care, education and sustainable livelihoods.
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Weekly clinics. Lifelong support.
Consultations, glucose monitoring, counselling and routine follow-up — every week, for around 60 patients at the NDI Center.
Our programsEducation
Knowledge that lasts a lifetime
Nutrition, insulin adherence and complication-prevention education — built around how patients actually live.
Our programsCapacity
Training the providers around the patients
In partnership with Diabetes Empowerment International (DEI), strengthening local healthcare capacity in Type 1 Diabetes care.
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Peer-led. Community-rooted.
A growing network of over 100 Type 1 and 400 Type 2 diabetes patients across Kasese District — held up by neighbours, not strangers.
Get involvedOur mission
Access · Education · Dignity.
We empower adolescents and adults living with Type 1 Diabetes through accessible healthcare services, diabetes self-management education, patient support systems and sustainable community-based initiatives — so that every person can lead a healthy, productive and self-reliant life, regardless of where they live.
What we do
Four programs. One promise.
Diabetes Care & Weekly Clinics
Weekly clinics at the NDI Center provide consultations, blood glucose monitoring, education, counselling and routine follow-up for around 60 patients each week.
Learn more → 📚Diabetes Self-Management Education
Continuous education programs that help patients and caregivers understand glucose management, insulin adherence, nutrition and the prevention of long-term complications.
Learn more → 👩⚕️Healthcare Provider Training
Training and lecture series for local healthcare providers — strengthening Type 1 Diabetes management capacity in partnership with Diabetes Empowerment International (DEI).
Learn more → 🌿Community Empowerment & Sustainability
Income-generating activities — rental apartments, community gardens and cash crops — that quietly fund operations and supplies year after year.
Learn more →Our story
A clinic, a garden, and a community that refuses to be invisible.
NDI was founded to answer a simple, unjust reality: insulin-dependent patients in rural Kasese were aging out of childhood aid programmes and walking for hours to reach care that was often unavailable. In partnership with Diabetes Empowerment International, we opened the NDI Center in August 2016 — a clinic, training room, examination room, community garden and small rental block that funds the work.
About NDIStories from Kasese
Lives. Not statistics.
May 2026
The garden that quietly funds the clinic
Cash crops and a small block of rental apartments make NDI less dependent on donor cycles — and more resilient when those cycles wobble.
Apr 2026
Why peer-led diabetes care matters in rural Uganda
When the person handing you your test strips also lives with Type 1 Diabetes, something quiet and important shifts in how care is received.
Feb 2026
How the NDI Center came to be
In August 2016, in partnership with Diabetes Empowerment International, we opened a small centre that has quietly changed what diabetes care looks like in rural Kasese.
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Every gift keeps a clinic open and a child alive.
A single dose of insulin can mean the difference between independence and emergency care. Your support funds weekly clinics, glucose monitoring supplies and the community gardens that keep our work sustainable.