Bulesa, Uganda

Equipping pastors. Educating children. Empowering girls.

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

Long-term ministry takes faithful presence.

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)

Matt and Shelley Actis at the Hope58 campus in Bulesa

A welcome from Bulesa

Meet the team.

Prisca and the team walk through the daily work on the Hope58 campus — Bible Training, the Girls Skills Center, and New Beginnings Preschool.

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An introduction to the team.

A look at the daily rhythm of the Hope58 campus, from the local team who lead the work in Bulesa, Eastern Uganda.

Tax-deductible giving

Hope58 is a U.S.-registered 501(c)(3). Gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

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Local leadership

The Ugandan church and Hope58's local staff lead the work in Bulesa. American partners come alongside what's already happening.

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Updates from the field, prayer requests, and stories of how the work is going in Bulesa.

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Whether through giving, prayer, or sharing the work with your church, you help make long-term ministry in Uganda possible.