Kellermann Foundation

The Kellermann Foundation has helped bring hope to the Bwindi community by not only helping address the Batwa(Indigenous population) needs but also the local communities. Their approach helps not to only address the current needs but furthers the continued growth and promoting sustainability of the developments in the region.

The Kellermann Foundation does a fantastic job bringing visibility to southwestern Uganda and to the people who have fallen through the cracks there. Their comprehensive approach to addressing issues within the communities they serve will absolutely have lasting, generational impacts.

The work of the Kellermann Foundation cannot go unnoticed in the south western part of Uganda, creating an impact on the Batwa people and the surrounding communities through great health care services, Education, Land Acquisition and home building. The foundation continues to give hope and health to the lovely people of Uganda which is a blessing to these people and their surrounding communities!

I was blessed to have been able to recently serve 9 years on the Kellermann Foundation Board of directors. I have served on on many boards of non-profit, charity organizations during my 20+ years of retirement, and none have exceeded the Kellermann Foundations strict adherence to lawful, fair, open, and prayerful principals of operation. Also no charity organization I have ever been associated with in any manner has been more obviously blessed by the good Lord Above in accomplishing and exceeding their mission objectives. I hold the Kellermann Foundation in my highest regard, and continue to support them as generously as I can.
Bob McLendon
Past baord member and Treasirer

I volunteered in Uganda years ago and am now a donor. The Kellerman foundation has done amazing selfless work for decades.

I have known the Kellerman's when the dream of helping create a place of healing and medical expertise was still a dream. They ventured forth with passion and belief in their vision and created a places of medical healing and community help. What seemed like an impossible dream became a tangible reality!

I love what this organization is doing in Uganda to help the displaced people groups, share Jesus's love, and equip them better in their communities in ways that work best for them rather than what Americans think is best for them. I really appreciate that they empower Uganadi people to staff their school, hospital and make their own decisions on what is best for their people.

This is a great charity that is improving health and educational outcomes in southern Uganda.

Excellent non profit. Making a significant difference in Uganda for 20 years. Check the website.

I believe the story of the Kellermann Foundation is one of unwavering dedication, compassion, and transformative change with the crowning achievement of the Bwindi Community Hospital, a full-service, not-for-profit medical facility with 155 beds, state-of-the-art units, and a team of 200 dedicated caregivers. The hospital serves over 120,000 residents in the Bwindi area, conducting a remarkable 40,000 patient consultations annually. The Kellermann Foundation has forged invaluable partnerships with universities and medical schools in the United States and Canada, facilitating clinical training and the implementation of an advanced healthcare information system. They have also introduced an innovative e-Quality health insurance program, a pioneering initiative in Africa that supports public health efforts targeting the Batwa communities.

While their work in healthcare is remarkable, I know the Kellermann Foundation has gone far beyond that. They have shown deep commitment to community development, especially in the case of the displaced Batwa people. The Batwa Development Program (BDP), established in 2008, has been instrumental in empowering the Batwa to improve their own circumstances. The BDP has supported the construction of homes, community centers, and schools in Batwa settlements, allowing them to move towards self-sustainability.

I believe the Kellermann Foundation's work is a testament to the power of compassion and dedication in the face of immense challenges. In my opinion, I believe their achievements are remarkable, from establishing a world-class hospital to empowering a marginalized community. The impact they have had on the Batwa and the broader community is immeasurable. I am proud to be associated with this organization and give it my full suport.

As a board member for the past six years I have had a front row seat to the wonderful accomplishments of the Kellerman Foundation, and the exciting future vision for the Foundation. I am honored and blessed to be a small part of the Foundation’s transformative work to improve the lives of the Batwa people and the surrounding community of southwestern Uganda.

Since Dr. Kellermann started this modest medical mission, his work has evolved into a dynamic Foundation supporting building a first-class hospital, a nursing school, education programs, agricultural programs, housing, community centers and gathering spots, and spiritual support for a remote area of Uganda. The Batwa people have emerged from a marginalized and nearly extinct group of internally displaced people into a thriving community.

The Foundation continues to provide hope and health to the communities in this remote area and the passionate staff and board members are all committed to ensuring that the Foundation continues to use all of its resources to directly impact the Batwa people and the region.

The Kellermann Foundation has been actively helping the Batwa in the Bwindi area of Uganda for 20 years. I have been actively involved for 10 years. I have traveled there twice and will be leaving in less than a month to return to Uganda. I have been involved in a water project, home building, and education. KF is actively partnering in areas of healthcare, agriculture, home building and education. Their goal is to help the Batwa to be successful in all areas after being forcibly evicted from the forest to protect the mountain gorillas. It is also very important to me that the people be able to preserve their heritage. Going to the Bwindi will give you a remarkable view of their lives and the hope that is now present. I also trust KF to manage all resources with integrity and have never doubted that any donation is used wisely. If you go, they have wonderful guest houses where you will feel at home and comfortable. I can't wait to get there!

A great non-profit. Dollar for dollar they are one of the most impactful in healthcare and nursing education, plus helping the displaced Batwa people. The hospital they created is one of the best in Uganda- that would be impressive on its own, but doing it in the remote Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is next level.

In 2023, my church sent 2 missionaries to Uganda with the Kellerman Foundation. WOW! The level of care, expertise and knowledge we experienced from the Kellerman Foundation was remarkable. They were supportive, intentional and helped shape a life-changing 90 day mission that continues to impact others. I cannot recommend this organization enough!

From its humble beginnings, the work in Uganda started by Dr. Scott Kellermann has continued and expanded … for decades. The hospital, nursing school, and other ministries have grown and won accolades as best in class in the nation. Communication with donors is also first rate. We love supporting KF and it’s work.

I have observed the Kellermann Foundation's work over fifteen years, and believe that its model of providing desperately needed medical services and transferring healthcare knowledge to local populations is stellar. Concentrating on the development of Ugandan nationals as leaders of the foundation's clinics and hospital facilities, the organization does this needed work with and not just for the people being served.

I've personally made an in-person visit to their facilities in Uganda and can attest to their level of impact across the entire country. They have amazing balance sheets published for public consumption and are honest about lack of funds and what they spend with surplus money. Just ask for Barnabas if have any questions!

Amazing org! Please check them out. I have had many great times volunteering with them over the years.

Our mission trip in 2014 revealed a life-long desire to assist the Batwa people in Uganda. My family has been enriched by serving with the Kellermann Foundation.

I worked with the Kellermann Foundation several years ago and found their mission and presence in the community to be deeply moving. The community trusts in their judgment and comes to them often for care and education. The mission never changes but the foundation evolves with input from the community to meet the changing needs. An organization like this is so hard to come by and it is greatly changing hearts and health for good.

The Kellermann foundation has and continues to do extraordinary work in the very impoverished region of southwest Uganda. I visited that area first in 2002, and it has been transformed in 20 years, largely because of KF's work. I have recently joined the board and can attest to the fact that it is expertly run.

Now that Covid restrictions have been lifted, my husband and I are planning our fifth trip to SW Uganda to further the mission of the Kellermann Foundation. So much progress has been made-from banana leaf tents to 2 room mud homes to the brick homes now being built. The schools built and funded by KF continue to offer opportunities that never existed in the past. The communication between the Bwindi Development Program in Bwindi and the KF is extremely attuned to the needs of the Batwa. I am proud to be a Board Member of such an outstanding organization and their efforts to sustain the Batwa and their culture.

I stumbled upon the Kellermann Foundation!
I had been asked to join a trip, at the last minute, to view wildlife in Uganda and was traveling with my good friend, a retired nurse and nurse educator. After a thrilling day of gorilla watching, my friend and I wanted to learn more about Buhoma. We heard about the hospital and the nursing school. My friend was most anxious to visit and a tour was arranged.

Wow! We were blown away by what we encountered. The Kellermann Foundation operates in the way you wish all charities would. There is local involvement and input and responsibility. While the work is Christian based, being a Christian is not mandatory for services nor is there proselytizing. Donated monies are not wasted but are treated with the understanding that those donating may be giving from their need not their excess.

The hospital and school were well planned out. My friend said the nursing education the students were getting was as good as any in the US, just the technology was a little dated. The disease reduction statistics and the reduction in infant and mother mortality rates is miraculous. If I had troubles while traveling in Uganda, the Bwindii hospital would be my first choice for care...it is filled with bright Ugandan and international doctors working in collaboration. This is not an outside organization mandating how things will be done...the Ugandans in the area are fully involved.

The Kellermann Foundation is also willing to help others accomplish work in the area. I wanted to send solar lights and laptops to the local school; the Kellermann Foundation helped me to arrange transport in the suitcase of a doctor traveling to volunteer in Bwindii. Diane Stanton and Daniel Jamison have spent time arranging meetings and counseling me on local culture for a school project my family is working on.

I can not say enough about this group. Read up on them! Do your homework! You will be impressed! These are good people doing good work. They want to leave this part of the world a better place! It may sound like a cliche, but they are truly helping others to help themselves. Get to know them you won't be disappointed!

I joined the board of this organization because of the great work they do helping an internally displaced group of people, and providing quality healthcare to a remote region of Uganda. They work to preserve and grow dignity among the Batwa people and the region.

I have served on many non-profit, charity boards over the past 20+ years. The Kellermann Foundation Board is been by far the best experience of them all. It is a Christ centered Board that practices regular and focused prayer, seeking God's guidance, grace, and bountiful blessings on all our endeavors. As a result I have never served on a board where the hand of God in our work was more evident. We pray for God's guidance and help, and then we get to work to enable God's will to be worked through and by our efforts. You might say we "Pray for potatoes, and then grab the hoe". And it is indeed exciting to let yourself be used by God.
And God has blessed all the activities of this board mightily - a 120+ bed hospital in the remote region of SW Uganda with an accompanying nursing school with 130+ students. Both where there was essentially nothing but a couple of dedicated missionaries working under a large Ficus tree about 20 years ago.
In the same area, their are now 12 villages of Batwa pygmies with incredibly improved healthy lifestyles. They are rapidly learning how to farm and build their own brick homes. The villages have good schools to educate their children. In summary their lifestyles are now infinitely better than they have ever been,while as recently as about 20 years ago they were rapidly going extinct.
GREAT FOUNDATION BOARD THAT WITH GOD'S HELP IS DOING GREAT WORK!

We did fieldwork, seconded from another NGO, for 3 years with Kellermann Foundation. Guidance and supervision came from both Americans and Ugandans. We were enabled to accomplish our goals and surmount problems. We worked to groom local leaders to take over our project, and KF facilitated this. We had a wonderful time!

The Kellermann Foundation is a pleasure to work with! They're efforts do so much good in the world!

Through communicating with members of my church who traveled to Uganda to help with the work that the Kellermann Foundation is supporting for the people of that region I learned that this organization uses its resources for the best possible uses. I have helped to raise money for the Uganda Nursing School Bwindi’s new Skills Lab and also the new ICU for the hospital because I believe in the work the Kellermann Foundation is doing to provide health care as well as education, nutrition and spiritual growth.

The Kellermann Foundation has helped create a sustainable future for the Batwa people. Providing health care in such a remote region of Uganda has increased life expectancy greatly. Besides the hospital, there is a nursing school as well. I became involved by supporting a student through multiple years of nursing school. This one student, out of many, will go on to not only provide care for the Batwa, but also help life her family out of poverty.

We have visited Scott and Carol Kellermann in southwestern Uganda several times and watched their efforts grow and bloom. After many years, there is now a hospital, with several wards, an OR, procedure rooms, a nursing school, a pregnant mother's hostel, a kitchen and children's area, an administration building and more. The place is amazing. High energy with heart and hope is how I describe what the Kellermann Foundation is about. The next phase is to build an ICU and private rooms for post surgery patients. Funds for that next step will be most appreciated. My husband and i are friends and donors, who care deeply about supporting the health and education of the pygmy population through the Kellermann Foundation. Please join us in that support. Julia and Mark

The Kellermann Foundation is doing wonderful things for the people in Bwindi and the Batwa! The staff are very kind hearted people as well.

The Kellermann Foundation is making incredible progress in supporting the Batwa pigmy communities and their neighbors. In addition to remarkable medical care, education, farming and housing improvements are significant.

The Kellermann Foundation does amazing work supporting the Batwa and providing healthcare, education and spiritual outreach to hundreds of thousands of people in Southwestern Uganda.

I have been to Uganda twice with the Kellermann Foundation. I feel that they are doing very good work there.

Excellent foundation with multifaceted goals that are attained by teams of altruistic people. #UgandaTeamJune2019

Working with the Kellermann Foundation was a pleasure. For background, I conducted dental public health research here. I personally travelled to Bwindi Community Hospital in Uganda and the site was amazing. The guest house there was very good for the area and price and everybody at the guest house and hospital were very friendly and helpful. The hospital prioritizes research and clinical care in a way that makes the work done there feel valuable and effective.

I spent a month at the Kellermann Foundation (KF) in Bwindi, Uganda as a volunteer for an economic development project of the KF's Batwa Development Program. I ate almost all my meals at the KF Guesthouse where I interacted with most of the doctors, both Ugandan and visitors, and administrative staff of the Bwindi Community Hospital which was founded by the KF and is operated by the KF with Ugandan entities. In addition I met many of the approximate 200 students at the Nursing School.

I have worked and traveled extensively in the Third World for over 40 years and been exposed to many nonprofits which were poorly managed, especially top heavy with non-local people. This is not the case with the KF's work in Bwindi, Uganda. The Bwindi Community Hospital, although smaller, is similar in level of care and operational efficiencies, including cleanliness, to the Partnership in Health hospital I visited in Butaro, Rwanda.

There is a lot of hard work in medicine as well as economic outreach done by the KF, and Uganda presents as many, if not more, operational challenges than I've seen in any Third World country. The KF does a good job with metrics / statistics to measure its successes. For me personally though during my volunteer month I saw its good work daily in the mostly joyous faces of the Ugandans, especially the Batwa / pygmies people whose health and well being was the original focus of the KF.

I had an amazing experience working in Uganda which the Kellerman Foundation helped to coordinate. I saw first hand how their funding has improved the health status of the Batwa and the surrounding communities. Very impressive!

We support a hospital and nursing school in the Biwindi region of southwest Uganda. In addition we are help the indigenious Batwa pygmies in the region. A little over 15 years ago there were no health care facilities within approximately 100 mile radius. Today by the will of God there is a 120+ bed hospital, a nursing school with 100+ students, and 14 thriving villages have been established for the Batwa Pygmies. But there is still much to do. The hospital needs additional lab and surgical facilities and equipment. The nursing school need additional dormitories, and the pygmies are still among the poorest humans on earth with rudimentary living facilities.
I have served on many volunteer, charity boards, but never one with as strong of a commitment to find and do God's work, and never one where the physical results are so obviously the direct result of God's active presence.

The Kellermann Foundation and its supporters truly love the Batwa and exhibit the highest integrity in undertaking this ministry! I am a staff member at KF, and my husband and I are donors who strongly believe in this important work.

The Kellerman Foundation does amazing work through Bwindi Community Hospital and Nursing School. They save lives period! Through the Kellerman Foundation, the Batwa get health care and the surrounding communities get served by a top-notch healthcare system. They achieve the incredible health outcomes through hard work, partnerships, strategic planning, monitoring and ensuring quality and sustainability in everything they do.

I have been involved with the Kellermann's since before they formed the Kellermann Foundation. They are highly caring, honest, hard working, spiritual agents for medical and social change among impoverished tribes in South Western Uganda. Every dollar given to their organization goes to build and staff facilities and help the local people.
My husband and I have been to their facilities 3 times and been so impressed that we have upped our giving substantially. We feel confident and joyful in knowing our investment is helping the Batwa (pygmies) improve their quality of life. Eventually I joined the board to help this successful organization further their goals.

The work of the Kellermann Foundation, supporting the displaced Batwa pygmies of Southwest Uganda, is nothing short of miraculous. The Batwa were Hunter/gatherers for 1,000s of years in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, until it was named a World Heritage Site in 1992 to protect the endangered mountain gorillas. The Batwa struggled to survive until Dr. Scott and Carol Kellermann were asked to go to Bwindi and evaluate the people. What began as a modest medical mission evolved into the Kellermann Foundation, which has built a first-class hospital, serving the Batwa and surrounding people, a nursing school, education programs, agricultural programs and spiritual support. My husband and I met Dr. Kellermann in 2005, and after hearing of his passion and care for the Batwa and their culture, we began supporting KF and have been involved ever since. KF's mission...providing hope and health in Uganda...has never wavered. As a 3-year KF board member, I am continually impressed with the staff's organization, diligence and concern with every detail of the operation of the Foundation. My family is honored to be associated with the amazing work of the Kellermann Foundation.

This is an inspiring organization that brings light into lives that have been shrouded in far too much darkness. Their strong leadership is sincerely committed to their mission.

The story of the Batwa pygmy community, the eviction from their native Bwindi Forest , the prejudice they've endured and their struggles for basic survival has, for the most part, stood in the shadow of the more popular media story about saving the Mountain Gorilla population.Few people know about the Batwa pygmies. One organization however has been shining a light on the plight of the Batwa over 15 years. The Kellermann Foundation, founded through grass roots support for the work of California physician Dr. Scott Kellermann and his wife Carol Kellermann, has intiated programs and projects that directly bring health care, education and economic empowerment to the Batwa and their neighbors. Through the collaboration of committed donors, volunteers and Ugandans they are achieving real and measurable improvements in health outcomes, educational opportunities and economic sustainability. As a long time donor, volunteer and visitor who works with the Batwa, I am inspired by the good work that is taking place in Bwindi and look forward, each time in returning to visit a beautiful area with a warm and welcoming culture.

I met Dr. Scott and Carol Kellermann about ten tears ago and they invited me to go to Uganda to witness the work they were doing. The were concentrated on work with the Batwa Pygmy people who had been removed from the Bwindi Rainforest in favor of the preservation of the Mountain Gorillas.
By the time I arrived Scott had already improved the life of the Batwa people by purchasing land for settlements and providing medical care that had increase life expectancy dramatically. The had also opened a hospital that was serving the needs of all who lived in this remote area of Uganda.
Over the years I have visited several times and have seen the mission grow in ways beyond my imagination at my first visit. The hospital has become one of the finest rated hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Foundation has worked to help the Batwa people hold on to their prehistoric heritage that is threatened by their removal from the forest. Clinics have been built and maintained. Schools have been built offering education to the Batwa for the first time ever. And in recent years, a new nursing school has been opened allowing for healthcare to expand to the remotest villages in Uganda.
I have been blessed to witness lives changed and lives saved in the most difficult of circumstances. It has been my great pleasure to support the Kellermann Foundation and witness that its work is making a tremendous difference for the Batwa people and the people of the Bwindi area of Uganda.

I travelled to Uganda six years ago and spent a week in Buhoma, the village in which the Bwindi Community Hospital, begun through the efforts of Scott and Carol Kellermann, is located. The lives that have impacted in this part of the world where access to basic healthcare is scarce is indeed impressive. But the most striking achievement is their focus on public health from the get go. By training and sending nurses and others health care workers out into the villages, especially Batwa Pygmy villages, the hospital and the KF which supports the work, have been able to teach village residents the basics of infant nutrition, the need for vaccination as well as the use of netting to prevent malaria. These efforts and many others have significantly reduced infant mortality, malaria and overall have contributed to health education and awareness of the local residents. Dr. Scott Kellermann's drive and vision begun this work and now well trained Ugandan doctors, nurses and administrators run this hospital and its ongoing public health programs. If you are a Pre-med student, look into the opportunities to intern at Bwindi!

I first volunteered with the Kellermann Foundation in 2007 when I traveled along with Scott Kellermann to Bwindi. I have traveled for volunteer purposes every other year to the region since my first visit. I am always in awe at the progress that has been made from one trip to another. More importantly, the people and the relationships I have formed since coming into contact with this organization is the reason I continue to travel to the area. The work this Foundation has accomplished is second to none!

I visited Uganda about 10 years ago to trek in the forest for mountain gorillas. I did that and visited the Kellermann Foundation's medical facility. I enjoyed the gorillas but more than that I loved the people I met in the village and at the hospital. I have since financially sponsored nursing students. I also sponsored a young girl from a Batwa village to a residential high school. She since graduated college in Kampala and is working with the Batwa. I just heard she is in NYC presenting information to a UN Council committee about the Batwa and others. To me, this is a success story AND it's true!

I went to Uganda for the first time in April, 2014. Our first stop was Bwindi, where we toured the Hospital and the wonderful, new, Nursing School. My heart was so touched to see the Nursing school, and I know that my late Aunt, Nursing Education pioneer and advocate Jo Eleanor Elliott, was with me on that visit. It is my goal to support a nursing student as soon as I am able to. We met with the Nursing students who are in class for 3 months, then in clinical learning at the hospital for 3 months. They have a 3 year program and are then able to run basic Health Centers in Uganda. We also met two wonderful nurses from the States who were there for a month teaching the students. If only I had skills to go back and share....I would be there in a minute. In lieu of another visit quite right away, I will raise funds to support a nursing student. Education and Community Health are so important for this region, and the Kellermann Foundation is supporting both!

When we donate to a non-profit organization, we do so with the expectation that they will use our gift to foster self-reliance within the populations that they serve. The Kellermann Foundation has has dealt with the human crises in Southwest Uganda by teaching the population to find ways to fulfill their own needs instead of having someone else do it for them. The successes of the Bwindi Community Hospital, Batwa Development Program, and the opening of the Uganda Nursing School Bwindi have been phenomenal over such a short period of time, even by American standards.

The Batwa tribe was on the verge of extinction due to their being dislocated by the government to preserve the mountain gorilla (who were not harmed by the Batwa)from their natural habitat and to encourage tourism - all successful, however, the tribe were unable to fend for themselves and no assistance was offered. The Church of Uganda (Anglian) recruited a tropical medical specialist and Dr. Scott Kellermann answered the Call and founded the Kellermann Foundation. Dr. Kellermann has developed the most amazing hospital considered the best in all of Uganda, and has provided not only health care, but several systems/entities to help them become self-sufficient. The KF raises awareness and support for the plight of this people group in the US and will continue to do so until the very last person is healthy, self-sufficient and productive. They are a faith-based organization and therefore provide more than medical assistance; they care about the whole person - spiritual, social and economics as well.

I have been involved with the Kellermanns and the Kellermann Foundation for more than 12 years at this point. I served on the board and was chairman for a number of years and left only for health reasons. I have been involved with a number of charitable organizations over the years and the Kellermann Foundation is the best run of any I have seen. It has done a huge amount with very limited funding and very low expenses. Scott has always felt that the recipients of help really needed to also help themselves and a number of programs have been set up to do just this. The setting up of the new nursing school is just one example of this premise.
Simi Lyss, MD

The idea of volunteering at Bwindi Community Hospital was planted by Scott Kellermann nearly four years ago. I needed to take a couple years to venture out of my own comfort zone to embrace the idea with open heart and spirit. I am a nurse of 35 years and I was told the hospital could use nursing expertise. My recent experience has been in end of life care and support. I had no expectations and went a very long distance to be welcomed by the wonderful people in the community. The job unfolded with the input of many people and we settled into the afternoon delight of sharing professional practice knowledge with the thirteen nursing students. What a pleasure! They were inquisitive, bright, intelligent, and very patient with our teaching skills. I so enjoyed encountering them outside the classroom, at the hospital; they were open to instruction anywhere. There was such strong professional and personal collaboration with the medical and non-medical staff -- we fast became friends. It is evident a sense of friendly competition is inherent at Bwindi and the two puzzles I brought were always in use at mealtime. I was able to win over the children by blowing giant bubbles and watching as they leaped into the air to touch them. The hospitality team at the Bwindi Guest House was wonderful-- the food delicious, the lodge clean and comfortable and the staff were so helpful. My absolute favorite experience at Bwindi: I was asked to speak to the Community Health Team by Haeven. In a very small room, drowned out by hard rain on the roof, they listened intently as I spoke to them about Hospice and Palliative Care and how it might apply to their community, goals of care, multidisciplinary approach and meeting the comfort care needs within their means. Perhaps, this was my purpose. I know how I felt. I am touched deeply by my three weeks to Uganda and hope to return again next spring with a larger team.

Picture a stone age man who is thrust into the 20th century and left to figure out how to survive when he can no longer hunt and gather food because all of the land belongings to the government or other people. That is what happened to the Batwa when the government forced them out of the rain forest. When Scott and Carol Kellerman first saw the Batwa, they had no place to live, no medical treatment, no schools, and no advocate to speak for them.
Twelve years after Scott and Carol began their work, I travelled to Uganda and visited the Batwa communities that had received services from various entities supported by the Kellerman Foundation. They had a hospital that today is considered to be the best one in all of Uganda. They had clinics in outlying areas. They had schools. Many Batwa widows had houses and plots of land where they could raise food for their children. They had mosquito netting. There was an HIV clinic for expectant mothers, so they could avoid their babies being born HIV positive.
Since I visited the Batwa, the first Batwa young people have gone to college. A nursing school has been built and opened. More families have land and houses. The list of improvements goes on and on.
What a wonderful, marvellous organization this is.
The foundation shared office space with me in 2013. I found the people here in the states to be as dedicated as the ones who work in Uganda

The Kellermann Foundation supports the Batwa people of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Southwest Uganda. The Batwa are a Pygmy tribe who were removed from their their life in the Forest in order to preserve the habitat for the few remaining Mountain Gorillas. The gorillas are doing well, the Batwa have suffered greatly. Dr. Scott Kellermann and his wife Carol started a clinic to help them. Over the past ten years the Foundation has grown the clinic into one of the finest hospitals in Africa. In the process , the life expectancy of the Batwa has more than doubled. The outreach now extends to all people of this corner of Uganda. Recently they have opened a Nursing School and a Building Trades School.
In order to preserve the Batwa heritage as hunter gatherers they have opened the "Batwa Experience" to pass on the traditions of life in the forest as well as a cultural experience for visitors. This work has won many honors. I have been pleased to make three trips to work there and have another planned. I have personally witnessed the life giving and life saving work of the Kellermann Foundation and working with it has been one of the great joys of my life.
Fr. Clif Gardner

I am a Travel Advisor. in 2012 , a colleague and I spent one month in Africa seeing new and different sites to enrich our lives and offer tour clientele. He dream was to walk with the gorillas, mine was to visit the pygmy tribe in Bwindi Inpenetrable National Park in Uganda. This was an experience of a life time. I spent most of the day visiting in the mountains with the Batwa people (the Batwa Experience), laughing talking and learning about their culture and each other (via a native translator). Upon my return to the low land - I had the opportunity to visit the schools and facilities build to assist with service o and for the Batwa people.
This was my first introduction to the Kellerman Foundation. It was there I witness the results of the good works of the Foundation and its people. I spoke with the local elders (one who escorted me on my hike) and saw the true commitment they felt about their growth and the contributions made to them and their people. More importantly to me - I saw the works of artisans of the tribe involved in making and bringing their goods for sale in the Developments' shop and children running home from school. Such a good feeling! I donate and hope to continue- by sending others and $$ donations.Thanks to the assistance and support of The Kellerman Foundation.

Working with the Kellermann Foundation has given me the opportunity to serve and make a difference in a way I never could have done otherwise. Meeting with the Batwa people, learning about their culture and assisting them in tangible ways--via building homes, painting school buildings, assisting at the hospital--all has given me a rich experience and a knowledge that I was able to offer real help to a marginalized and forgotten people.
Dr Scott and Carol's vision for the Batwa people is amazing, and working alongside them has taough me so much about what it means to serve and to follow Christ.

The Kellermann Foundation came to life after the amazing work of Dr. Scott and Carol Kellermann in SW Uganda. They went into SW Uganda in 2000 to evaluate the medical conditions of the Batwa Pygmies. The Batwas had been displaced from the Impenetrable Forest when it became a reserve for the Mountain Gorillas in the mid 1990's. They had ALWAYS lived deep in the forests.

The Kellermann's made a life changing commitment to stay full-time with the Batwas for 8+ years, ministering to the medical needs, establishing a Women's program, buying land, building mud huts, teaching farming and sewing and more. While there Dr. Kellermann established the first hospital that ministers to Ugandans in SW Uganda and tribes in surrounding countries. The Bwindi Community Hospital is now top rated. Just completed is the Nursing School which trains Ugandas and Batwas to become nurses who will soon minister to their own people.

The Kellermann Foundation has made and is making a huge difference in the daily lives of the Batwa Pygmies who would have perished without the Kellermanns generous gift of time and talent.

The Kellermann Foundation is one of the most efficient, functional, caring and effective organizations I've ever encountered. Their mission of providing hope and health is very focused, appropriate to the people they serve, and carried out with care and compassion. A very high percent of the funds they raise are put to use "on the ground", and their faithful stewardship is evident in all aspects of the organization. Grateful to have the chance to support them.

I first met Dr. Scott Kellermann in 2007 when he came to our camp to assist my friend. She had broken her arm while gorilla tracking. Dr. Kellermann invited us to visit the Bwindi hospital which at that time was small with 3 beds, very clean & very much needed. Everyone was so excited to show us around and proudly pointed out the medicines, the freshly painted room, the personal touches of humankind.
Most of all their passion and true dedication to helping to care for the "Forest people", the Batwa, who were getting lost in a growing society and a shrinking forest.

I will never forget meeting several of the pregnant Batwa women who had walked for days in hopes of delivering a healthy baby. I was so touched and changed by this experience of seeing what human kindness, dedication and passion can offer to others, that years later, when I had the opportunity to volunteer on the communications board of the Kellermann Foundaiton, I did not hesitate.

Today, that little hospital has 130 beds, a nursing school is now opened and the Batwa continue to learn to be self sustaining with education, skills in tourism, working & having healthy babies & healthy, thriving families.
What joys and blessings to know of such an organization and what an honor to serve on a committee that strives to help continue this work
Sincerely,
Kathleen Cook-Hunter, Dallas, TX