Uganda
Organizations need to promote women’s confidence

World Humanitarian Day: Interview with World Service director Maria Immonen

#WomenHumanitarians
Organizations need to promote women’s confidence
19 August 2019
World Humanitarian Day: Interview with World Service director Maria Immonen #WomenHumanitarians
Fighting against injustice and inequality
16 August 2019
A volunteer from Nepal shares her story on World Humanitarian Day #WomenHumanitarians (LWI) - When Amrita Rai was just nine years old, she was forced to flee her home in Bhutan and travel to Nepal, where she grew up surrounded by people struggling to find ...
Selfless service at the front line
15 August 2019
Sarah Ewoi, Kenya, receives refugees from South Sudan #WomenHumanitarians (LWI) - 46-year-old Sarah Ewoi is a mother of 4, working for the Lutheran World Federation – World Service at the Nadapal Transit Centre in Kenya. The center is located just behind ...
Child Friendly Spaces; an Avenue for Learning and Socializing
24 July 2019
Children are the foundation that are going to steer the future of the world. We need to create an environment where they can grow, play and heal especially when they have been exposed to life-shattering experiences such as war, disaster and displacement.
Surgery Restores Hope for a ‘Future Nurse’
24 July 2019
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has taken initiative to support children who are born with disabilities to have equal chances in future, by offering medical consultations and cost-free operations with Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) ...
Faith actors call for Global Solidarity with Refugees
20 June 2019
UNHCR, LWF and other faith communities commit to support refugees
Taking leadership #WithRefugees
20 June 2019
Churches engage in service, support empowerment (LWI) - All over the world, churches are making a difference for people on the move. They provide shelter, food and water, give psychosocial support, and help to build relations with host communities. So what’s ...
LWF Uganda scales up risk intervention against the spread of Ebola virus
13 June 2019
Communication strategies to increase awareness in the community about the disease
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.
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