Uganda
LWF’s Water System Transforms Healthcare at Kabala Health Center II, Northern Uganda

 
From a battered wife to a business woman
25 January 2018
  She was physically and emotionally abused by her husband in 2015. Despite the continuous torture, Victoria Eimani, a mother to 5 children and South Sudanese refugee in Boroli settlement continued to live with her husband because she was helpless and didn’t ...
Ending widow inheritance in Pader district
22 January 2018
  She was told to choose a new husband between her two brothers -in-law by her family in law. Doreen Angwech (not real name) narrates that a week after her husband’s death in 2012, her family-law gathered for a meeting at her marital home in Lagara central ...
Fresh violence in Congo increasing refugee influx in to Uganda
16 January 2018
  7,185 Congolese refugees have arrived in Uganda between 18/12/2017 and 12/01/2017, majority of them are women and children (60%). Hundreds continue to arrive in Uganda every day fleeing for their safety after fresh violence broke out in the Democratic ...
Women living with HIV/AIDS spearheading its fight in Pader district
15 January 2018
  She tested positive in 2006 but continues to live strong, happy and above all, healthy. 32-year-old Faith Aciro (not real name) is a wife and mother of three. She resides in Lagai village, in the northern Uganda district of Pader.
A chat with Joel Otim, a lead farmer in Pader district
9 January 2018
  Joel Otim is a reputable rice farmer in Barajwa village, Pader district. He owns 30 acres of land on which he practices commercial rice farming. Otim is one of the rice farmers feeding thousands of Ugandans. Part of the rice he produces is consumed by ...
Breeding nutrition and food security through agriculture
2 January 2018
  According to the report of the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey of 2011, 33 % of Ugandan children under the age of five years are stunted (short for their age), 6% are wasted (thin for their height), and 14% are underweight.
Tony Okot is reaping big from bananas
18 December 2017
  For Tony Okot, a 22-year-old banana farmer in Williwilli village, Pader district, bananas will always be looked at as a treasure. The harvests from his one-acre banana farm have helped pull the fangs of poverty out of his life.
World Refugee Council’s Allan Rock visits Uganda’s refugee settlements
27 November 2017
  Honorable Allan Rock, a member of the World Refugee Council has visited South Sudanese refugees in Uganda’s settlements. During his visit to Moyo and Adjumani districts’ refugee settlements, the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada ...
Refugees with albinism brave the scorching sun and mud for a living
15 November 2017
 
Women sustaining families in Pagirinya settlement
13 November 2017
  ADJUMANI - Topista Angua’s day begins at 5:00am, in her five-acre garden in Pagirinya settlement in Adjumani district. She is growing two acres of maize, two of groundnuts and one of sesame (simsim). Part of her produce is for consumption while the other ...
Married off at 16 in exchange for 50 cows
13 November 2017
  ADJUMANI - Margaret Tisa (not real name) is a South Sudanese refugee in Nyumanzi settlement, Adjumani district. She was 16 years old when her father gave her hand in marriage to Bior (not real name) in exchange for 50 cows in 2015.
Refugee group preaches sanitation and hygiene through MDD
8 November 2017
  KAMWENGE - They preach sanitation and hygiene through music, dance and drama (MDD). Mapendo Village Health Club, a group of 30 Congolese refugees moves to every zone of Rwamwanja settlement singing and acting hygiene practices like; the safe water chain, ...
Combating open defecation in Palorinya settlement
31 October 2017
  Moyo district - To answer nature's call, Charles Tabu, a South Sudanese refugee in Palorinya settlement would walk metres from his house to an open space. It's there that he would dig in to the ground, defecate and cover the fecal matter with soil. This had ...
The "bleeding shame" driving girls out of school
26 October 2017
  Moyo district - ‘The monthly red tomato is here…’ boys at Belle primary school in Palorinya settlement buzz at sight of menstrual blood stains on girls’ uniforms. This, Peace Julius Juru, a primary six pupil describes as embarrassing and stigmatising ...
Our hands, our health, our future
20 October 2017
  Moyo - The communities of Itula and Obongi sub counties in Moyo district have been taught better ways of washing hands in order to avoid infection. Demonstrating to the over 1,000 people who gathered at Chinyi primary school in Obongi to commemorate ...
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