Uganda
Rooted in faith, committed to serving others

World Service country program staff in Geneva for Global Leadership Team Meeting
Rooted in faith, committed to serving others
16 May 2019
World Service country program staff in Geneva for Global Leadership Team Meeting (LWI) - How can the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) respond better to emergencies and to the long term development needs of the world’s most vulnerable people? How can it help ...
Forced in to prostitution by war
6 May 2019
  Rwamwanja refugee settlement - In 2008, Marie Lapel (not her real name) was forced in to marriage at an early age of 12. This was after she was abducted from her parents’ home in North Kivu during the civil war in in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
LWF advocates against child abuse and early marriages in Palorinya refugee settlement
30 April 2019
  In 2016 when South Sudanese refugees arrived in Palorinya refugee settlement, Moyo district, the situation regarding children’s rights was unfair. This was worsened by the fact that most refuge arrivals were minors including unaccompanied and separated ...
LWF offers hope to persons with special needs
26 April 2019
  Palabek settlement - Rose Amoding (not real name) became a single mother after walking out of an abusive marriage. Left with 7 dependents, Amoding barely had hope of how she would fend for her family.  
Improved menstrual hygiene with reusable sanitary pads increase girls’ access to education, with dignity
15 April 2019
  With the funding from Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), LWF as one of leading partners in Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (WASH) promotes menstrual hygiene management (MHM) as a way of restoring girls’ dignity.
Backyard gardening is improving food security and nutrition among refugees in Palorinya settlement
28 January 2019
  Every month, each refugee receives a food ratio of 8 kilograms, 6 of these are of maize flour while the 2 are for beans. It’s on this quantity of food that one is supposed to survive for a whole month as they patiently wait for the next ratio from the ...
Meet Emelda Modong, a South Sudanese refugee rebuilding her life through business
24 January 2019
  She was poor and left with no income source when she arrived in Uganda in December, 2016, but, Emelda Modong now brags rich. Modong is one of the women refugees considered financially independent in Zone II of Palorinya settlement, Moyo district.
Farmer groups increase agricultural productivity for food security and better livelihoods
23 January 2019
  Atimango Group is a Farmers’ and Savings group of South Sudanese refugees in Palabek settlement, Lamwo district. Unlike thousands of refugees in Uganda’s settlements, these 30 members own 10 acres of farmland. The members who once only owned a 30 x ...
A stitch in time saves nine: LWF upholds maternal health in Kyangwali refugee settlement
21 January 2019
  Kyangwali refugee settlement - It’s 3:30 pm here in Kyangwali refugee settlement. 14-year-old Shifra Makombi (not real name) is experiencing labor pains. The 14-year-old rape survivor is rushed to Maratatu Health Centre II where she can hardly get the ...
Baby Sara saved from the fangs of malnutrition: LWF is defeating malnutrition in Kyangwali settlement
8 January 2019
  Kyangwali refugee settlement - Joyce Tuhaise birthed her first child in kituti village since the health centre is miles away from her home in Kituti village, Tuhaise had a home birth. Due to cultural beliefs and norms, the new mother painfully waited ...
Co-Founder of Rwamwanja Rural Development and Training
23 November 2018
 
From a graduate to a video hall owner
20 November 2018
 
Lady in Building & Construction, a male dominated vocation
20 November 2018
 
Meet Amal, a single mother rebuilding her life in Palabek refugee settlement
15 November 2018
  “I fled war and violence in my home country – South Sudan. I sought refuge in Uganda after witnessing the death of my friends by violence.” Says Beatrice Amal who fled Lagii Village, Pajok county in South Sudan to Uganda in April, 2017.
The people of Northern Uganda uphold Environmental Conservation
16 October 2018
  The world loses an average of 18.7 million acres of vegetation per year according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). This is due to the increasing pressure on the environment and land to accommodate the growing population as well as livelihood activities ...
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