Mukono- Thursday June 7th, 2018— Uganda Christian University (UCU) and the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at harnessing their collective strength to save lives, serve communities, and improve documentation and knowledge sharing.

The signing took place at UCU main campus in Mukono with UCU Vice Chancellor Rev. Canon Dr. John Senyonyi and URCS Secretary General Mr. Robert Kwesiga as principal signatories to the MoU. The MoU establishes a collaborative relationship in the area of operational research for evidence based programming, knowledge transfer through capacity building trainings,staff and student placements, field work support and other development programs of mutual interest to the two institutions.

Under the agreement, UCU is to create avenues for her students and staff to support the URCS emergency health interventions such as blood donation exercises aimed at saving lives of those at risk. It is also to place students/fellows for experiential learning with URCS, carry out research for URCS and avail any academic related research information that it deems necessary for programme and project planning in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences to URCS.