An international adjudicators has designated Conservation through Public Health Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Tele-centre for the world’s best Information and Communication Technology project award in the environment category.
Conservation trough Public Health (CTPH) is a grassroots NGO that promotes conservation and public health by improving primary healthcare to people and animals in and around protected areas in Africa.

Mr Lawrence Zikusoka t founder CTPH commented that being a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge is a noteworthy achievement for the NGO. This event is an ideal forum to showcase new tele-centre approaches to scrutinizing the health of endangered mountain gorillas, strengthening the local economy, raising villagers’ and eco-tourists’ environmental awareness and improving human health practices in a Ugandan World Heritage Site.

In 2005, CTPH in partnership with Uganda Communications Commission and the World Bank among others set up the first community tele-centre to address the problems of poor health practices, poverty, lack of knowledge on sustainable environments, isolation, and limited access to education and job training in and around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.


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