A single station. A critical corridor.

An Ebola outbreak was declared in eastern Congo on 15 May 2026. The Bundibugyo strain involved has no available vaccine, and the outbreak has grown into one of the deadliest in DRC’s history, with cases confirmed across seven provinces.  Virunga National Park, 500km wide at its broadest point and spanning the heart of the affected region, has built and is operating three screening stations along the main routes leaving the outbreak zone. As of September 2026, more than 1 million travellers have been screened and 45 suspected cases identified since the first station became fully operational on 27 June.

This project funds the next station in that network, one of three planned to close the remaining gaps in the surveillance corridor and protect the towns of Beni and Butembo, and the Kasindi border crossing into Uganda.

Travellers passing through your checkpoint are stopped and screened, given hand washing and temperature checks and suspected cases identified and referred for isolation and treatment.

  • Milestone 1

    Start of Build

  • Milestone 2

    Completion of Screening Station Build

  • Milestone 3

    Evaluation and reporting

  • Milestone 1

    Start of Build
    The sponsor will be notified when the screening station build has started.

  • Milestone 2

    Completion of Screening Station Build
    The sponsor will be notified once the station has been built and equipped.

  • Milestone 3

    Evaluation and reporting
    At the conclusion of the six-month deployment, the sponsor will receive a report summarising operations, travellers screened, and outcomes.

OPERATIONAL CONTEXT

Two thirds of Virunga National Park and most of its personnel operate within the Ebola affected area. The park’s 500km width creates a natural barrier and a network of monitoring points across the main routes used by travellers leaving the epidemic zone.

Virunga ran a similar operation for over a year during the 2018 to 2019 North Kivu epidemic, and its community networks, reaching tens of thousands of families through coffee, cocoa and palm oil cooperatives, help build trust and compliance at screening points today.

WHY THIS MATTERS

Containing an Ebola outbreak depends on identifying cases before they move. Screening travellers at key transit points is one of the most effective tools available, and one of the few that can be deployed rapidly at scale.

This is no longer unproven. As of September 2026, the first three stations have already screened over 1 million travellers and identified 45 suspected cases, each one a potential chain of transmission stopped at the corridor. Funding this next station extends that same protection to a new corridor, screening up to several thousand people a day across a six month deployment.