Statutory aim

The Fondazione Piero e Lucille Corti Onlus, Milan, and the Fondation Teasdale-Corti, Montreal (Canada), are precious humanitarian bridges towards Africa.

Their aim, written in their Bylaws, is to provide economic, technical and logistic support to St. Mary's Hospital Lacor in Gulu, North Uganda. More simply known as "Lacor Hospital", the hospital was established in 1959 by Combonian missionaries and was developed starting from 1961 by the husband and wife team Piero Corti, Italian paediatrician, and Lucille Teasdale, one of the first Canadian women surgeons, with the objective to provide the best possible healthcare service, at the lowest cost and for as many people as possible. Today, Lacor is the leading private charity hospital in Uganda.
After having devoted their entire lives to "their" hospital, Piero and Lucille set up the two foundations in Italy and Canada to ensure lasting and continuous support to the Ugandan facility. Thanks to the support of the foundations, Lacor Hospital can ensure, constantly and without interruption, quality healthcare service accessible to all.

The Foundations

• By means of fundraising activities, they cover everyday overheads of Lacor Hospital (remunerations, drugs, throwaway materials, fuel, etc.) and capital expenditure (buildings, medical equipment, infrastructures, training);
• directly contribute, when necessary, to the purchase of goods and services on behalf of the hospital;
• promote Lacor Hospital in order to publicise its founding values and extend the network of supporters who keep track of its events and help strengthen its role as a development centre for the whole North Uganda region.

After 20 years of conflict, more than 100,000 war victims, 30,000 kidnapped children and 1.5 million evacuees in refugee camps, North Uganda has finally returned to peace, but it will take years before the population can recover from extreme poverty. In this situation, Lacor Hospital is a solid hope for survival for millions of human beings.

In Africa we can do much with little.

It costs an average of 8 Euros per person to treat a patient, including tests and drugs, operations and intensive care, at Lacor. However the situation changes and, in a developing society, needs and costs will soon increase.
To develop, a country must invest in healthcare and healthcare has a high price. Lacor Hospital represents the main non-governmental economic organisation of North Uganda and its direct and indirect impact on social development goes above and beyond the healthcare industry.

Lacor Hospital

• Creates jobs and generates skills
  595 people (physicians and healthcare professionals) work at Lacor today, and they all come from Uganda. The hospital is in the forefront in terms of training healthcare professionals. Every year, more than 200 resident students attend its schools for nurses, healthcare educators, laboratory experts and specialist informers on AIDS. Lacor is also the venue for the internship of practitioner physicians from the faculties of medicine in Uganda and a University centre for the students of the only Faculty of Medicine of North Uganda in Gulu.
  The hospital trains and employs professionals also in sectors other than healthcare: gardeners, carpenters, logistics experts, engineers, joiners, electricians.
  This ensures long term professional skills and the ability to work.

• Provides means for micro-loans by means of a no-interest loans cooperative reserved to employees.

• Favours related industries Thanks to the consumption generated by all those who receive their income from the hospital in a region where less than 10% of the population has regular work. According to a survey carried out by the NKOZI University in 2001/2002, more than 52% of the income generated by the hospital is directly re-introduced into the local economy.

• Promotes a work ethic based on transparency, responsability and refusal of corruption.

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Italian Foundation - INFO

The Fondazione Piero e Lucille Corti is a charity with registered office in Milan and bylaws recognised by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs by means of Ministerial Decree 7597 dated 07/11/95. It is included in the Register of Legal Entities of the Milan Prefecture (under progressive number 491 on page 870 of the third volume). Board of Directors: Dominique Corti, Chairman; Mario Vismara, Deputy Chairman; Piergiuseppe Agostoni, Enrico Citterio, Cristina Corti, Achille Rosa, Donato Greco, Gianluigi Rho, Mario Valenti, Guido Coggi, Guido Coppadoro, Contardo Vergani. Board of Statutory Auditors: Sergio Vaglieri, Chairman; Federica Ricci, Stefano Gnecchi Ruscone. Operating office managers: Laura Suardi, Chiara Paccaloni.

The Fondazione Piero e Lucille Corti is a charity with registered office in Milan and bylaws recognised by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs by means of Ministerial Decree 7597 dated 07/11/95.

It is included in the Register of Legal Entities of the Milan Prefecture (under progressive number 491 on page 870 of the third volume).

Board of Directors: Dominique Corti, Chairman; Mario Vismara, Deputy Chairman; Piergiuseppe Agostoni, Enrico Citterio, Cristina Corti, Achille Rosa, Donato Greco, Gianluigi Rho, Mario Valenti, Guido Coggi, Guido Coppadoro, Contardo Vergani.

Board of Statutory Auditors:: Sergio Vaglieri, Chairman; Federica Ricci, Stefano Gnecchi Ruscone.

Operating office managers:: Laura Suardi, Chiara Paccaloni.