For many years, Pilgrim Africa has been proud to support Rotarians around the world to scale up effective malaria interventions where they will have the most impact. Rotary’s engagement in malaria is growing, and potential for impact is greater than ever.
Support Children to Live Free of Disease
In the past two years, Rotary, Malaria Partners International. Pilgrim Africa, and World Vision partnered with the Ministry of Health to bring community management of malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea to more than 500,000 Ugandans at high risk of disease, training, equipping and supplying over 2000 village health teams.
Led by the Rotary Clubs of Muyenga and Oklahoma City, with support from over 30 clubs in the U.S., Uganda, and Nigeria, the project generated an unusually high level of domestic and continental African funding and won a district award, setting a new standard for malaria investment.
As sub-contractors of Metrics 4 Management, Pilgrim Africa helped evaluate Rotary International’s first, large scale, integrated community case management (iCCM) partnership – Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia -- a $6 million program undertaken by Rotarians, the Government of Zambia, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and World Vision.
The evaluation was designed to inform scale up in Africa -- now underway with Rotary’s Healthy Communities Challenge. This initiative will provide $30 million to combat malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia by scaling up iCCM in underserved areas of Zambia, Nigeria, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.