Why indoor residual spraying
IRS treats interior walls in sleeping and learning spaces, killing or repelling mosquitoes for months after the spray has dried.
Uganda · Indoor Residual Spraying · School Protection
Protect students from malaria withvisible, school-level follow-through.
Pilgrim Protect works with schools to reduce malaria-carrying mosquitoes, limit student-mosquito contact, and teach prevention through campus activities that students can carry forward.
IRS-led prevention
Approved indoor residual spraying in classrooms and dormitories
Direct implementation
Gifts support school program work, not generic overhead
Student prevention culture
Education, malaria clubs, and youth champions
Program signals
- Real schools
- Field reports
- IRS protection
- Malaria education
- School malaria clubs
- Youth champions
- Real schools
- Field reports
- IRS protection
- Malaria education
- School malaria clubs
- Youth champions
Why this approach
A school-centered intervention with a path to sustainability.
Pilgrim Protect is not just a spray visit. It is a prevention model designed around students, schools, and long-term local ownership.
Why schools
In high-transmission areas, a school of 1,000 students can record more malaria cases in a year than it has students. Protecting schools protects learning time.
Why Pilgrim
Pilgrim Protect pairs spraying with prevention education, school malaria clubs, youth champions, and a cost comparison that helps schools plan beyond one visit.
How it works
Subsidize, compare, protect, sustain.
Pilgrim Protect starts by lowering the barrier for schools, then helps them see the practical case for continued malaria prevention.
- 01
Subsidize
Pilgrim Africa offers an initial term of spray and protection service so schools can begin despite tight budgets.
- 02
Compare
Schools share de-identified malaria case information and examine prevention costs against the cost of illness.
- 03
Protect
Teams implement IRS in classrooms and dormitories using approved insecticides, with education activities around prevention.
- 04
Sustain
Schools are invited to budget consistently for prevention, contributing to operational costs as they are able.
Program narrative
Let official program stories explain what Pilgrim Protect does.
These stories are grounded in Pilgrim Africa’s public Pilgrim Protect materials: student testimony, IRS, prevention education, malaria clubs, school cost comparisons, and sustainable follow-up.
Donors are more likely to act when they understand both the student impact and the practical school model behind the work.
#student-testimony#irs
A Beacon of Hope Student Leader on Learning After Spraying
A student leader describes how spraying classrooms and dormitories helped students spend less time sick and more time learning, leading, and participating in school life.
“We no longer have to worry about falling ill and missing crucial lessons.”
3 min readRead story
#school-partnership#cost-of-illness
Why Pilgrim Protect Starts With a Subsidized First Service
Many rural schools carry a high malaria burden without enough budget for vector control. Pilgrim Africa lowers the barrier by offering a first term of spray and protection service.
“The first service opens the door for schools to compare the cost of prevention with the cost of illness.”
4 min readRead story
#irs#education
Indoor Residual Spraying at the Center of School Protection
Pilgrim Protect focuses on primary and secondary schools with IRS, prevention education, malaria clubs, and youth champion activities.
“IRS is presented by Pilgrim Africa as the single most effective malaria prevention intervention in Uganda.”
3 min readRead story
#cost#sustainability
The Cost Story Behind Sustainable Follow-Up
Pilgrim Africa frames long-term malaria prevention as something schools can budget for when they can see the health and financial case clearly.
“$100 can protect 33 to 50 students for a year; $2,000 can protect an entire school of 650 to 1,000 students.”
3 min readRead story
#student-testimony#irs
A Beacon of Hope Student Leader on Learning After Spraying
A student leader describes how spraying classrooms and dormitories helped students spend less time sick and more time learning, leading, and participating in school life.
“We no longer have to worry about falling ill and missing crucial lessons.”
3 min readRead story
#school-partnership#cost-of-illness
Why Pilgrim Protect Starts With a Subsidized First Service
Many rural schools carry a high malaria burden without enough budget for vector control. Pilgrim Africa lowers the barrier by offering a first term of spray and protection service.
“The first service opens the door for schools to compare the cost of prevention with the cost of illness.”
4 min readRead story
#cost#sustainability
The Cost Story Behind Sustainable Follow-Up
Pilgrim Africa frames long-term malaria prevention as something schools can budget for when they can see the health and financial case clearly.
“$100 can protect 33 to 50 students for a year; $2,000 can protect an entire school of 650 to 1,000 students.”
3 min readRead story
#irs#education
Indoor Residual Spraying at the Center of School Protection
Pilgrim Protect focuses on primary and secondary schools with IRS, prevention education, malaria clubs, and youth champion activities.
“IRS is presented by Pilgrim Africa as the single most effective malaria prevention intervention in Uganda.”
3 min readRead story
$1,000 protects one school for a year.
Pick a specific school, fund one spray cycle, and watch it move from needs-funding to data-gathered on the map.