Whisper's Magical Children's Hospital and Maternity

Hello! Whisper is a very high impact charity that funds Whisper's Magical Children's Hospital and Maternity in Jinja, Uganda. There's a children's hospital, a maternity unit, a free ambulance service and a nursing school, all running on an annual donation budget of around £250,000.

 

Bath Half Marathon 2025

Take part in the Bath Half Marathon, southwest England's largest fundraising event with 15000 runners, on Sunday 16 March 2025.
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Swim Serpentine 2025

Take part in the Swim Serpentine 2025 event on Saturday 20 September. Swim Serpentine is a far smaller, more personal event than the London Marathon. Recommended.
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Swim Serpentine 2023 from Serpentine Bridge

 

Find out what we're doing now

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See how much you can do!

If you want your charity giving to achieve as much as possible, you've come to the right place.

Here are just some of the treatments that people like YOU helped the hospital to do in financial year 2022-23. Many of these children might not have survived without help from people like YOU Find out why

Blood transfusions 1,327
Malnourished patients 743
Total number of patients 11,429
Donations received for hospital running costs £248,465
Average donation per patient £21.74
Average donation per life saved that would not otherwise have been saved £279

 

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    Baby with octopus

    The octopus was hand-knitted in Sweden and it is said to remind young babies of the umbilical cord.

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    Main Operating Theatre
  • {snippet translate|Sleeping patient|Spící pacient|Schlafender Patient|}
    Sleeping patient
  • {snippet translate|Delivery Room|Porodní pokoj|Entbindungszimmer|}
    Delivery Room
  • {snippet translate|Hospital classroom|Učebna v nemocnici|Klassenzimmer im Krankenhaus|}
    Hospital classroom

    Patients and the staff's children can go to school in the hospital without leaving the building

 

A short video introduction to Whisper (2022, 12mins)

 

Why should you care about the impact of your donations?
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Caring is what we do. Find out what we care about
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Whisper aims for excellence through partnerships in training and research Find out more

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