Bulesa, Uganda
Hope58 empowers pastors, girls, and children in Uganda with Christ-centered training and education.
Tax status
U.S. registered 501(c)(3)
Location
42-acre campus, Bulesa, Uganda
Pastor training
12 Bible schools, 200 pastors
Founders
Matt & Shelley Actis
Why this work matters
In Eastern Uganda, most village pastors lead churches without formal biblical training. Vulnerable girls finish primary school with no clear path forward. Children begin life without access to early education.
Hope58 partners with the local church in Bulesa to address each of these. Pastors trained over three to four years. Girls equipped with vocational skills and Christ-centered life coaching. Children given an excellent educational start. The work is steady, local, and built to last.
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn. Isaiah 58:8 (NIV)
Three programs, one campus
Each program runs from the 42-acre campus in Bulesa. All three operate as partnerships with the local church and Ugandan staff.
Program
Vocational training, leadership development, and Christ-centered life skills for vulnerable girls. Practical tools for independence built on biblical character formation.
Learn about the Skills Center
Program
Literacy, numeracy, and Bible stories woven into a nurturing daily rhythm. Christ-centered early education that prepares children for primary school and beyond.
Learn about the Preschool
Program
Twelve Bible schools serving two hundred pastors in training. A three-to-four year curriculum meeting every two weeks, with ongoing mentorship and storytelling-based teaching tools.
Learn about Bible TrainingBy the numbers
Concrete numbers, not headlines. Every figure ties back to the work happening on the ground in Bulesa.
200
Across twelve Bible schools in Eastern Uganda. A three-to-four year curriculum, in-person every two weeks, with ongoing mentorship.
Bible Training42acre
Boarding, classrooms, preschool, the local church, and farmland. The working hub for every Hope58 program and partner activity.
About the campus3
Girls Skills Center, New Beginnings Preschool, and Bible Training. Each in active partnership with the local church and led by Ugandan staff.
Support the workA welcome from Bulesa
Prisca and the team walk through the daily work on the Hope58 campus — Bible Training, the Girls Skills Center, and New Beginnings Preschool.
Watch · 4 min
A look at the daily rhythm of the Hope58 campus, from the local team who lead the work in Bulesa, Eastern Uganda.
Hope58 is a U.S.-registered 501(c)(3). Gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
Ways to give →The Ugandan church and Hope58's local staff lead the work in Bulesa. American partners come alongside what's already happening.
What we believe →Updates from the field, prayer requests, and stories of how the work is going in Bulesa.
Subscribe →Whether through giving, prayer, or sharing the work with your church, you help make long-term ministry in Uganda possible.
