CTPH

This holiday season, help build us up. Literally.

 

 Donate. Every Cent Counts. (Click here)

 

With only 15 full-time staff, we remain a small organization, and one that continues to greatly impact our world. How, you ask? Working in partnership with Uganda Wildlife Authority, our mobile gorilla hospital tends to half the world’s population of the incredible Mountain Gorilla. We are the authority on gorilla health research in East Africa. And for many locals we are their only path to empowerment through basic health services and education initiatives. We accomplish incredible feats because we believe in what we do – seeing and living our work in the field everyday.

But with all the need for our work, we have outgrown our tiny headquarters in Buhoma village. The one-room wooden structure that has served as the hub for our research and health initiatives for the past five years no longer provides a suitable home for our organization.

So, when the ECOLIFE Foundation and Hubbell & Hubbell Architects offered to help design our dream – again we, quite literally – exclaimed “yessssss!” With the help of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Steven and Florence Goldby, and The Africa Adventure Company, we purchased land overlooking Bwindi Impenetrable Rainforest, home to our gorilla friends.

Through an integrative approach, the CTPH Gorilla Health Centerwill advance discovery, research and understanding of gorilla preservation and human health on local and global levels. Now it’s imperative to raise funds to build the CTPH Gorilla Health Center. This “green” site will appear to “grow out of the land” rather than sit on top of it. Quite appropriate, as every layer of CTPH is built on the principle of interconnectedness between people and wildlife through the “One Health” concept.

Learn more about CTPH Gorilla Health Center here.

The CTPH Gorilla Health Center costs 100,000 USD to build alone. Add the laboratory costs, and we are up to 200,000 USD. We need your help to make this dream a reality.

To help build this extraordinary project, please click here.

 

Warmly,

Dr. Gladys and the CTPH Team

 

* Top image: Sketch of the plans for the CTPH Gorilla Health Center.