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This powerful video, produced and donated to Pilgrim by Tricia Manning-Smith and her husband Paul, won 2 top awards from the prestigious National Telly Awards. These Awards honor outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions and online film and videos. 
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Pilgrim has many Aid & Relief Program events to report. William Omara, the Director of Aid & Relief has been arranging the distribution of emergency food relief in several districts in NE Teso, verifying situations where food is needed and distributing emergency food supplies. The food distributed is from the container of emergency food packets from Feed My Starving Children that was donated to Pilgrim. Another container of that same kind of food, enough to provide 270,864 meals, has arrived in Zimbabwe for distribution by Paula Leen's ministry in Murwira. Her feeding program covers four local schools where 1200 students get one healthy meal per day. She also cares for 36 orphans at her own orphanage and provides emergency food and medical transportation as well as a myriad of other social services to her surrounding community.
Pilgrim has another container is on the way, also donated by Feed my Starving Children, to Zimbabwe. Thanks to all who donated towards the transportation costs for these two containers of food.
Another area of Aid & Relief for which William Omara is responsible is the distribution of a containerof medical equipment and supplies. This container was donated in late 2009 to Pilgrim by Charity Services International / World Children's Fund, and is enough to supply many clinics. William is travelling through the Teso region visiting the clinics, assessing how the donated materials can help each individual clinic, and supplying what he can.
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This June Pilgrim will once again offer an important training opportunity to human service workers serving the Soroti, Uganda area. A team of experienced trauma therapists from the Trauma Studies Center (TSC), a division of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City, will be training pastors, teachers, health care workers, first responders and others how to recognize and respond effectively to those suffering from psychological trauma. Pilgrim has several counselors trained in this specialized counseling who work with the numerous Ugandans severely impacted by the combined effects of war, displacement and differing kinds of loss, and is eager to train more through this team's visit.
This is the third time the TSC has visited Soroti. The team will be visiting schools and government offices, as well as health centers and hospitals, to become better informed about the mental health needs of the Teso people. The week in Soroti will culminate in a 3-day conference sponsored by Pilgrim, titled "Restoration and Renewal." In addition to basic trauma therapy, sessions will focus on the fundamental principles of trauma counseling, and conclude with approaches to nurturing the community of care givers. The conference is for all locally involved with trauma therapy.
Prior to coming to Soroti, two members of the TSC team will be in Kampala, where they will offer training in specialized treatment techniques to members of the Uganda Counseling Association. Two members of the Pilgrim counseling staff will take part in this training.
Many of the students at Beacon of Hope College are healing from the wounds of abuse, war and abandonment, and are now thriving due to the extensive long-term therapy available through the counselors at Beacon Medical Center. Pilgrim's goals are to infuse the Gospel into modern accepted trauma therapy, to heal the wounds of trauma with a powerful Christian foundation, and provide more available therapy to the community at large.
We are proud to premiere a new video created for us by Gregory King - "Pilgrim In Uganda 2009" - that captures the people, work and successes that Pilgrim experienced in Uganda in 2009. Enjoy and spread the word!
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Related Links: Move On Malaria, Beacon Of Hope Secondary School, Trauma Treatment Program, Resettlement & Agricultural Assistance, Beacon Medical Centre
Pilgrim is one of three non-profits that was selected to be featured by HopeMongers.org - a wonderful new micro-giving site that is connecting people one-to-one across the globe with the mission to solve endemic poverty and injustice. Learn more about HopeMongers in their inspiring video.
Related Links: Move On Malaria, Emergency Food Relief
The first intervention of Move On Malaria (MOM) in Katakwi was a complete success. The trend of Malaria continues to go down dramatically in the region, and the hospital has been almost empty for the first time in years!
Watch the video to learn more about this intervention.
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