18 Feb 2026 · NDI Team
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.
When NDI was first imagined, the challenge in front of us was simple to describe and stubborn to fix. Adolescents and adults living with Type 1 Diabetes in Kasese District were aging out of childhood diabetes aid programmes — and walking for hours to reach care that was often unavailable when they got there.
In August 2016, in partnership with Diabetes Empowerment International (DEI), we opened the NDI Center. It is small by donor-report standards: a clinic, a private examination room, a conference and training room, a community garden, and a block of rental apartments whose income helps keep the lights on.
What it offers is bigger than its footprint: weekly clinics, peer support, education that meets patients where they are, and a place that says — clearly, in a region where the message is often the opposite — that lives with diabetes are worth investing in.
In August 2016, in partnership with Diabetes Empowerment International (DEI), we opened the NDI Center. It is small by donor-report standards: a clinic, a private examination room, a conference and training room, a community garden, and a block of rental apartments whose income helps keep the lights on.
What it offers is bigger than its footprint: weekly clinics, peer support, education that meets patients where they are, and a place that says — clearly, in a region where the message is often the opposite — that lives with diabetes are worth investing in.