Turning impactful ideas into real solutions.

Established in 2005, ECHOES Around the World was created from a ten-year relationship with the Serunjogi Family and the life-changing work they carried out in Uganda.

The Rev. David Serunjogi, known as Romans, and his wife, Sarah, first opened the Trinity Children’s Centre in a slum near Kampala, Uganda in 1986 with six students. Trinity is the first school ECHOES partnered with in Uganda. As Trinity grew, the Serunjogis continued their important work in the region in 1998 by opening Centenary High School, a secondary school located across the equator and 80 miles south, in Masaka, Uganda. Nine years later in 2007, they broadened their mission to include health care and disease prevention with the opening of Double Cure Medical Centre in Mpigi, Uganda. These three entities in Uganda continue to be an important part of ECHOES’ work.

Close to home, ECHOES formed a second supportive partnership in 2011 with St. James School, a tuition-free middle school servicing under-resourced students of all faiths in Philadelphia.

Our most recent project is Project Ensonga which makes and distributes sustainable feminine hygiene kits. Originally the kits were provided to our partners in Uganda - now they distributed around the world.

ECHOES supports accountable, visionary leaders like the Serunjogis who are making a real difference in their communities. We do not impose our ideas or values on our partners. Instead, we seek to help indigenous leaders whose projects make sense in their environments and cultures.

ECHOES, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is committed to giving 90 to 95 percent of every dollar it raises directly to its partner projects.

To ensure accountability, ECHOES stays in close contact with its partners in Uganda and Philadelphia through multiple personal visits, regular phone calls and e-mails. Seven current ECHOES Board members, as well as many of our Advisory Board members, have made numerous visits to Uganda to ascertain needs firsthand and to ensure that our financial support is prudently spent.