Uganda
A Simple Call That Changed a Life

 
LWF drills 84 new boreholes and rehabilitates 56 others to increase water access
23 May 2022
 
LWF reactivates emergency response in Rwamwanja refugee settlement
23 May 2022
  A total of 7,537 refugees from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo arrived at the Ugandan border point of Bubukangwa in South Western Uganda's Bundibugyo district between February and March this year. The UN refugee agency has resettled the ...
Facilitating quicker access to justice for refugees
23 May 2022
  Uganda hosts over 1.4m refugees, mainly from neighboring war-torn South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, who are prone to crime as they get accustomed to the foreign law. These also pressure the already inadequate ju­dicial resources, yet the ...
LWF provides ambulances for refugee mothers
23 May 2022
  In April 2020, Rebecca Mapen­do was three months pregnant when she felt a sharp pain in her lower abdomen. The 31-year-old Congolese refu­gee lives with her husband in the kyangwali settlement located in South Western Uganda. Mapendo was thrown off ...
Cash grants assist refugees in meeting their non-food basic needs
23 May 2022
On March 15, 2018, Ms Scovia Avico entered Uganda along with her three children. Avi­co left Njugu, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Uganda not as a visitor or a tourist but as a sole option to escape the never-end­ing conflict back home that ...
Community-based Interventions help South Sudanese refugees to heal from mental distress
28 April 2022
36-year-old Lilly Amal, a South Sudanese refugee, is not letting her mental illness history hold her back. Instead, she uses it as a platform to support others with mental distress. Thanks to the Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and ...
Reskilling and cash grants aid self-reliance among youth refugees in Kyangwali settlement
28 April 2022
  With the majority hardly equipped with any skills after the tension in their countries, refugees are prone to poverty even in host countries like Uganda, with favourable refugee protection policies which allow them to engage in entrepreneurship.  
Multi-Purpose cash transfers for vulnerable refugees improve Livelihoods in Kyangwali settlement
26 April 2022
  Uganda continues to be home to over 1.5 million people on the move, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan and other neighbouring countries. Political unrest, insurgencies and tribal wars force the millions of people to seek refuge ...
Youth makes a fortune from cash grants
28 July 2021
  28-year-old Makosso*, a refugee in Kyangwali settlement in Western Uganda, boasts of a successful shoe selling business worth Shs1.5million (about $421), two years after he arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo penniless. Makosso not only lost ...
Unconditional cash grants bring joy to amputee refugee
28 July 2021
  Nyakabande* a 57-year-old male South Sudanese refugee had lost his wife when he fled the war to Uganda for safety. On arrival in Uganda, the father of seven settled with his children in one of the settlements in Northern Uganda. Due to insecurity issues ...
Mobility devices and grants restore hope to refugees living with disability
28 July 2021
  Since his childhood, Lazarus* (not his real name) a 41-year-old who was born crippled found it hard to crawl to do daily work and access places including market areas, and school.  Life was even harder when he arrived in the Kyagwali refugee settlement ...
‘An improved shelter restored my dignity’
28 July 2021
  Baatin* is a 59-year-old South Sudanese refugee living in Palabek settlement in Uganda’s Northern district of Lamwo since 2018. Baatin narrowly escaped death in South Sudan, when his wife was killed in full view of the entire family. He was able to ...
'Adult literacy has given me a second chance to read and write'
28 July 2021
  32-year-old Mary* is one of the many refugees living in the Kyangwali settlement who cannot read and write. It was not her will to miss school at a tender age, but rather the primitive cultural practices in her community back in the Democratic Republic ...
Two candidates for next LWF general secretary
2 June 2021
Election to take place on 19 June (LWI) - Candidates from Estonia and Zimbabwe have been proposed for the position of general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation. The search for a new leader of the communion of churches has been concluded and the LWF ...
Palorinya refugee with disability minting money from farming
27 April 2021
  In 2020, Refugee leaders identified Robina Liong as living with a disability of one hand as a woman at risk and forwarded her details for the protection and livelihoods support under the Reconnecting Lives, vision and Empowerment (ReLiVE) project implemented ...
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