2025 Impact
Six acres. One year.
Here’s what happened.
Measured outcomes from the YDO campus in Omoro District, Northern Uganda.
When the LRA conflict wound down in the late 2000s, most organizations packed up. The cameras moved on. The money followed. What remained were communities trying to rebuild from nothing, with almost no one still standing beside them.
Be A Number exists in that gap. Not as a crisis-response organization, but as a long-term partner to a community doing the slow, unfilmed work of rebuilding. In 2025, here’s what that looked like on the ground.
700+
Patients treated
Medical outreach through the on-site clinic and community health drives
68
Adults trained
60 women in sewing and vocational skills, 8 men in construction trades
30
Community jobs
Teachers, clinic staff, cooks, mentors, and administrators from the local community
380
School capacity
Nursery and primary school on campus, open and serving Omoro District
How It Works
Four systems. One campus.
Everything runs on the same six acres. The school, the clinic, the training center, and the jobs are all connected. That’s the point.
Education
A nursery and primary school with capacity for 380 students, staffed by teachers from the local community. Every child gets daily meals (morning porridge and a midday meal prepared on campus), school supplies, a uniform, and access to the medical center. The school doesn’t exist to check a box. It exists because the closest alternative is a long walk away and costs money most families here don’t have.
Health
An on-site medical center that serves both students and the surrounding community. In 2025, more than 700 patients were treated through clinic visits and community health outreach. For many families in Omoro District, this is the closest medical care they can reach.
Workforce development
Sixty women completed sewing and vocational training in 2025. Eight men completed construction apprenticeships. These aren’t theoretical programs. The women sew school uniforms that the students wear. The construction apprentices build the buildings the programs run in. The training feeds back into the campus, and the graduates leave with skills that work in the local economy.
Economic infrastructure
Thirty people from the surrounding community are employed to run the campus. Teachers, clinic staff, cooks, administrators, mentors. In a region where formal employment is rare, those 30 paychecks support entire households. The campus isn’t just serving the community. It’s employing it.
Financial Stewardship
Where the money went in 2025
Be A Number, International is a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 93-1948872). All financial reports are independently reviewed and publicly available.
$79,623
Total raised & deployed
Fiscal year 2025
96.7%
To programs
Direct community program allocation
3.3%
Overhead
Admin, compliance, and reporting
Administrative functions remain intentionally lean. Governance, compliance, financial reporting, and long-term sustainability planning are handled at minimal cost so that nearly every dollar reaches the ground. This isn’t accidental. It’s structural.
On the Ground
Who runs this
Not an international NGO. Not a fly-in team. The campus is Acholi land, run by Acholi leadership.
Youth Development Organisation Uganda (YDO), founded and led by Simon Peter Wilobo, designs and runs every program on the campus. Simon grew up during the LRA conflict, in the same generation whose childhoods the war consumed. He came out the other side determined to rebuild from within his own community, not through outside organizations.
Today his team of 30 local staff and volunteers runs the school, the clinic, the training programs, and the mentorship. They don’t work in the community so much as they are the community. The programs they build are designed to outlast any external support.
Kevin Hershock, in Michigan, built the systems that fund it: the shirts, the sponsorship model, the donor infrastructure, and the bridge that connects American sponsors to Ugandan children. Neither half works without the other.
Be part of what 2026 looks like.
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