Guiding Light Orphans:  Creating Change in Rural Uganda

We're committed to making a positive impact through healthcare, education, and clean water programs in rural Uganda.

How GLO is Making an Impact

Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Project

Our WASH Program equips local teachers to educate students on better hygiene practices in schools that affect the entire community.


21 million Ugandans don't have access to safe water. Each day 33 children in Uganda die after consuming or coming into contact with tainted water. Lack of safe water is a crisis racking rural Ugandans.

A $20 donation gives a child clean water for a year.

Village Health Teams

There is a critical shortage of all types of healthcare workers in Africa. Uganda has a nurse-to-patient ratio of 6 per 100,000. Our Village Health Teams and our bi-annual medical camps fill this gap remarkably well, and in many places provide the first line of healthcare.

Uganda has a nurse-to-patient ratio of 6 per 100,000 against the World Health Organization recommended ratio of 2.5 per 1,000. 

Women & Girls' Empowerment

Our Women Empowerment Program helps support over 300 young girls in Uganda. We provide this all girls school with uniforms, school supplies, and sanitary supplies so that they never have to miss school.

Donating $50 helps a woman safely make it to school for a year.

Epilepsy Programs

Knowledge about the epilepsy epidemic in Uganda is very limited. GLO's Epilepsy Program raises awareness and helps individuals understand epilepsy and how to improve acceptability, treatment, and services for the patients, families, and caregivers .

"I have been seizure-free for almost two years now and I think I can help other people too and tell them about this treatment.”

-Raphael

Help Provide Clean Water to a Child for One Year!

Become a Monthly Donor

A small donation can make a big impact.


A $10 once a month donation allows Guiding Light Orphans to purchase:

20 pounds of cornmeal, 10 pounds of beans, and cooking oil, which is enough to feed a family of three for two weeks. This donation also includes several bars of soap so that families can wash, and stay clean.

If $10 from just one person could have such an impact, imagine what a community of people ready to give back can do. Your support to GLO makes an impact. Our donors get to know exactly how their money is being spent how they've made an impact.

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Support a Program

Looking to make a specific impact?


If there is a specific program that you or your organization would like to support, we are able to make that IMPACT!


Your donation will support 100% of the program of your choice, and we will send you an update of the progress.


Together, we can make a change.

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Join Our Volunteer Community

Join our growing community of over 250 donors and volunteers. We serve around 24,000 people in the most rural and poor area of Masindi, Uganda, and without the support from donors like you, children would die from preventable disease because of their lack of basic medical care.​

 

Thanks to our donors, we have been able to provide basic medical care to the most rural villages that have never had any care before.


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Stories of Inspiration

By Thomas Karas 06 Jul, 2020
At this time of great worry and uncertainty for us all, we sincerely hope that you and your loved ones are in good health. Kurt and I have called many of you to “check in” and see how you are doing. We will continue to reach out and would lov e for you to share (good or bad) how all of you are managing through this troubling time. Thank you for your past and ongoing support as our lifeblood especially for the children, the women and girls whose lives you touch. In terms of Guiding Light Orphans, Inc we can assure you that we are following both the USA and the Uganda Government and public health officials advice and we have put strict measures in place to protect our medical staff, patients, students and everybody they come into contact with through hand washing, utilization of masks and cleaning and disinfecting. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of our services are still suspended and this is tough for us knowing that the quality of lives for the children and their caregivers has been greatly affected.
By Thomas Karas 04 Jun, 2020
This past year we partnered with the UConn School of Engineering and sponsored a senior design project. Working with this all-female team of Katarina Konon, Brianna Markunas, Abigale Monasterial, Renée Rogan and advisor Kristina Wagstrom was such an honor. We are so proud of them for winning first place for this project! 
By Thomas Karas 05 Jun, 2019
More than 1 million women in Uganda are exposed to sexual violence every year. They are not taught that they own their bodies or how to stand up against harassment. Of women reporting recent violence and threats, 28.8% cited their neglect of household chores as the reason violence was inflicted upon them. Women in Uganda are controlled by society’s antiquated expectations of them. On our most recent visit to Uganda, we had an introductory vocational training course that empowered 20 young women. Lilian, age 23, said, “I thought my life was over and that I had to depend on my husband for everything even if he was beating me almost every day. At first I thought it was okay to beat me because I thought I was doing something wrong. But now I can do a lot of things on my own without a man who does not respect me. Thank you for empowering us. God bless you and your friends from USA.” We hope to continue empowering young women like Lilian. To-date, in only a short period of their training, the women have reached over 1,000 people in surrounding schools, local farmers’ markets and churches through the advancement of community-led health education programs. With your help, we are working to build a vocational training center so that our girls can have their own space for education and production. Their outreach can then continue to spread and ignite change for the whole community.
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