Fundraising Goal Reached for COVID Triage Center
We have received many generous gifts from supporters like you, the Pilgrim Staff, and the Pilgrim Board, and are excited to share that we have raised our goal of $40,000 for the COVID Triage Center at Beacon of Hope! The COVID Triage Center is in the process of being...
COVID Violence in Africa
SOWETO, South Africa—Sello Kgoale watched his neighbors shuttling back and forth with looted liquor, refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. There were no police at a nearby mall, they told him, so the 46-year-old father of three joined the thousands-strong mob...
GoFundMe for COVID Triage Center
(This GoFundMe campaign has been completed) COVID-19 is spreading rapidly throughout Africa. The BBC says “Uganda is of particular concern, recording a 131% week-on-week rise in cases, with isolation centres and intensive care units under strain." Fewer than 2% of the...
Second Covid Wave in Uganda
On Sunday the President of Uganda announced that all schools will be closed for the next 42 days, and that only local travel will be allowed as they have started to see a significant second wave of COVID-19. Just like the first wave, Uganda is acting firmly to keep...
World Malaria Day 2021
On April 25, we celebrated World Malaria Day! World Malaria Day is when we mark successes in the fight against malaria, highlight the responsibility we all have to end malaria within a generation and urge leaders to step up the fight and get us closer to a...
National Exams
National exam dates are quickly approaching for the candidate students at Beacon of Hope School! Our Senior 4 students start their exams on February 26th, and our Senior 6 students start their exams on April 9th. Both teachers and students have been working hard to...
A Word from Our CEO
CEO Dorothy Echodu shares how Pilgrim Africa has been on the forefront of the COVID-19 response in Uganda.
KRMP Update
As COVID-19 sweeps through Uganda, our Village Health Teams (VHTs) have had to adapt to new safety guidelines. Finishing out Phase II of the KRMP malaria study, the VHTs are actively serving children who are suffering with malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea. But now,...
Beacon of Hope Update
For many students in the U.S., the pandemic has forced them to engage in online learning for the rest of this school year, and possibly the next. But how is the pandemic affecting our students at Beacon of Hope, many who do not have access to a computer or Wifi,...
Project Ranger Partnership
Earlier this month, Pilgrim Africa entered an amazing partnership with Project Ranger, a consortium of conservation organizations headed by the Great Plains Foundation, in an effort to protect the endangered wild mountain gorillas in Uganda. COVID-19 has threatened...
Introducing Remote Learning at Beacon of Hope School
We’ve just received a $23k grant to do remote education at Beacon of Hope School. A massive THANK YOU to The Allen Family Foundation for this game-changing grant! We can now purchase tablets and internet access for all 80 A-level candidate students and instructors for...
Together as brothers and sisters
With relationships across tribes, races, countries and continents, Pilgrim Africa stands in solidarity with the fight against the evil of racial injustice, in all of its forms and wherever it is found. The centuries of systemic racism in America are the antithesis of...
Pilgrim Africa joins the 2020 Fight Against Malaria campaign
We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Global Cause on the 2020 Fight Against Malaria campaign! Dr. Dorothy Echodu, Pilgrim Africa’s CEO is featured in a piece that shares how Uganda’s progress offers hope in the malaria fight. Read more on the...
Uganda in the era of COVID-19
With only 58 cases reported so far, the entire nation of Uganda is on lockdown. Transport in any vehicle that is not government-sanctioned (including private cars and motorcycles) is forbidden, and several women in labor lost their lives in the last few weeks because...
Letter from the Sponsorship Officer
Moses, who's been the Sponsorship Officer since Pilgrim's inception in 2001, knows all too intimately the joys and pains of informing children whether or not they get sponsored to attend school. There are countless children like Racheal here, children who hope and...
Racheal’s Story: “Things Happen for a Reason”
My name is Racheal Atuko and I am an 18-year-old student at Beacon of Hope College. My family has been very poor and broken since childhood and yet, I am a firm believer in the phrase ‘things happen for a reason’. When my father refused to pay for my schooling, my...
Beacon Medical Center: For the community, by the community
SEATTLE—Pilgrim Africa’s health clinic, Beacon Medical Center, continues to provide care that is instrumental to the community of Soroti, Uganda. Beacon Medical Center is a private medical clinic located next to Beacon of Hope College. Classified as a Health Center...
Annex Renovations at Beacon of Hope
In Uganda, the number of children in attendance drastically plummets from primary to secondary school. Census data from 2004 indicates that for every ten students in primary schools, only one is enrolled in secondary schools. Pilgrim Africa has assumed a comprehensive...
Recent National Malaria Upsurge in Uganda
SEATTLE — Pilgrim Africa was notified by the Ugandan Ministry of Health’s National Malaria Control Program of an upsurge in malaria incidence on August 21, 2019. While the months of June to September are historically high transmission periods, 2019 has seen a higher...
The Fight to Stay Low!
There has been a huge upsurge in malaria across Uganda in the last month or so, and in the last week the rapid rise in deaths and cases of malaria have made world news. Katakwi is blessed to be at a relatively low level of malaria because of the interventions...