About Us
Pilgrim: Daring to be a beacon and a voice of hope.
Pilgrim seeks to restore hope and dignity to the needy in Africa, providing material and spiritual aid to empower the lives, dreams, hopes and talents of the people we serve so that God may be glorified.
Quick Facts
Pilgrim was registered as a 501c(3) in December 2004. Its headquarters is in Seattle, Washington which supports offices in Kampala and Soroti Uganda, Lusaka Zambia, Harare, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Pilgrim also supports approximately 100 permant full-time employees and has approximately 200 volunteers.
Pilgrim's work reaches more than 500,000 households through a broad spectrum of community programs in north and eastern Uganda.
Pilgrim's annual budget for 2008 was $1.3 million in direct funding and $10.3 million from gifts in kind.
History
Pilgrim was founded as an indigenous Christian response to the plight of more than 1.5 million refugees living in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in the war torn regions of Northern Uganda. From its inception as a small organization providing simple relief and psycho-social support to the desperate refugees, Pilgrim has grown to be an international organization with aid and development interventions in Relief, Medicine/Public Health, Trauma counseling, Education, and Agricultural training/resettlement. Our long-term goal is to help African people move from extreme poverty to sustainable productivity.
Pilgrim has become a force for development in NE Uganda with major projects in education, public health, agriculture and relief. Together with Uganda's Ministry of Health, Pilgrim this past year pioneered a successful campaign against malaria, Move on Malaria, benefiting several hundred thousand people. The Seattle office of Pilgrim provides support for the 100 employees of Pilgrim's Uganda staff, headquartered in Kampala.
Beginning this year, the Agathos Foundation has entrusted Pilgrim to run its operations. With Agathos' focus on orphan care in sub-Saharan Africa plus major efforts in distributing food and medical relief elsewhere in Africa, this merger of operations will allow Pilgrim to serve peoples in South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Zimbabwe and the Sudan, as well as Uganda.
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