“Transhumanitarians” have contributed hundreds of dollars via a GoFundMe campaign to establish a “H+ Clinic” in an isolated Ruwenzori mountain village of western Uganda.

H+ Clinic has raised 100% of the needed funds - a total of $1,500 - to operate the clinic. $500 will pay the medic, the remainder will buy medicine, a microscope, additional supplies, and pay for the sign and wiring fees.

The final $230 needed to complete the campaign was donated Friday morning, August 28th, by Martin Kleman, a founding member of the UK Transhumanists, who is currently living in Switzerland.

H+ Clinic is situated at Bwethe Nursery and Primary School, in a remote forested area of the Ruwenzori “Mountains of the Moon” near the Congo border. The hamlet cannot be reached by road; it’s a 45-minute hike from the rural town of Kyarumba.

Ted Peters, a Lutheran-Transhumanist who teaches at Pacific Lutheran Theological Institute in Berkeley, California, donated $500 to H+ Clinic. This matches his contribution last year to de-worm tribal children in The Philippines. Ted Peters has also provided lunch food (corn meal) to children at Bwethe and to parentless children at the nearby Rays of Light Orphanage.

Margie Olson of Vacaville, California, donated another $300. Margie is a former Peace Corps volunteer who spent two years in Ghana; she retains a soft spot for African humanitarian concerns.

Christopher Bradford, a Mormon Transhumanist Association member, contributed $100. He has been a regular donor to many campaigns that serve the needs of children in western Uganda. Kathy Wilson, also an MTA member, has also donated $100, and she, too, is a regular contributor to many humanitarian causes, both in Africa and in India.

Additional contributors were Ann Philipp, a mystery and humor writer living in Sebastopol, California - she donated $100. Her cousin Alyce Bitticks, a therapist in Greensboro, North Carolina, donated $50. Wei Cui of the San Francisco Bay Area donated $50, Ryan McCormick donated $20, and Hank Pellissier donated $50.

$800 has already been sent to Joseph Kasiribehe, the budget manager of H+ Clinic, in Uganda. The remainder of the funds will either be wired soon, or hand-delivered in November by members of the Brighter Brains Institute, the SF East Bay think-and-do tank that sponsored the campaign.

This successful campaign represents only the latest of a series of “transhumanitarian” actions that have occurred in the last year.

Three transhumanist organizations worked together to set up a “Science & Literacy Center” in the town of Kyarumba, Uganda. Those three groups were the Mormon Transhumanist Association, the Christian Transhumanist Association, and Alcor Life Extension Foundation.

Before that, multiple transhumanists funded a Carpentry Workshop for AIDS Orphans, and a Genesis Chicken Farm for COISER Orphanage , in Jinja, Uganda.

H+ Clinic will be the 8th Health Clinic that Brighter Brains Clinic has established in Uganda in the last year. The other seven clinics are at Kasese Humanist Primary School, BiZoHa Orphanage in Muhokya, Embrace Global Change Clinic in Nyakiyumbu Widows Orphanage in Nyakiyumbu, and Vision Care School, St. Luke’s Nursery School, Rays of Light Orphanage, and St. Thomas School - all in Kyarumba.

Does Uganda Need Clinics?

Yes! Ugandans have an average lifespan of 55.8 years, immensely shorter than the USA lifespan of 79 years. Uganda’s infant mortality rate is 44 deaths out of 1,000 births, more than 7X deadlier than the USA infant mortality rate of 6 out of 1,000.

H+ Clinic will serve 200 children at the school, plus their subsistence farming parents. Diseases here include malaria, HIV/AIDS, parasitic worms, respiratory illnesses, peptic ulcer disease, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal ailments. Reports on disease cases at a nearby clinic can be viewed HERE.

H+ Clinic costs only $1,500 annually because the clinic will reside in a concrete structure that UNICEF abandoned in 2009. The medic’s $500 as an annual salary far exceeds the per capita annual income of rural Ugandans.

“Transhumanitarianism” is an evolving philosophy that combines the humanitarian goals of psychological empathy and socio-political equity, with the technological world-saving ambitions of transhumanism.

The GoFundMe link is HERE. It indicates about 50% of the funds raised - the remainder were sent directly to Brighter Brains Institute via their PayPal account. All significant donors received a tax deductible receipt, plus an H+ Clinic t-shirt, and their name on a Contributor’s Banner.

Brighter Brains operates the 8 clinics mentioned above, plus BiZoHa, the world’s first atheist orphanage, and BiZoHa Primary School, which serves the community around the orphanage. If you’d like to be a contributor, email: brighterbrainsinstitute@gmail.com