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Uganda Cash Consortium receives €6m from the EU to provide cash assistance to refugees

Additionally, cash for Education in Emergencies (EiE) will be provided to over 23,800 children and adolescents who are currently out of school or at risk of dropping out. This assistance will be provided during the third term in 2022 and 2023.

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Uganda Cash Consortium receives €6m from the EU to provide cash assistance to refugees
4 August 2022
Additionally, cash for Education in Emergencies (EiE) will be provided to over 23,800 children and adolescents who are currently out of school or at risk of dropping out. This assistance will be provided during the third term in 2022 and 2023.
Peer support demonstrates good mental health-seeking behaviours among distressed refugees
29 July 2022
  Withdrawing from drug abuse and alcoholism as a coping mechanism has sparked Alex Duku's mental health activism. The 32-year-old in Northern Uganda's Boroli settlement in Adjumani district is now a model mental health community-based psychosocial ambassador. ...
Vocational skills tailoring refugees to self-reliance
29 July 2022
  Hosting over 40,000 refugees, majorly from South Sudan, the Palebek settlement in Northern Uganda, like others, has refugees operating several small income-generating activities aimed at economic self-reliance. These activities include hairdressing, tailoring, ...
Community-based interventions reduce malaria cases in selected sub-counties.
26 May 2022
  For the past five years, the cases of Malaria reported at ItakaIbolu Health centre ll have reduced more than thrice. The health centre located in Eastern Uganda's Luuka district is one of the governments funded that have benefitted from the Luuka Community ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
SALIMA project offers economic empowerment for refugees
14 July 2020
  “We are not only surviving but also steadily developing,” says Vestina, a 25-year-old Congolese single mother, expressing her gratitude towards the Lutheran World Federation and partners for the support. Vestina is living in Western Uganda's Kyangwali ...
LWF General Secretary announces he will step down in 2021
20 May 2020
"Junge has personified LWF's passion for the church and for the world" (LWI) – LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge announced today that he will be stepping down from his position on 31 October 2021, three years before his term ends. "Serving as ...
LWF, Partners launch new aid programme in Kyangwali refugee settlement
3 March 2020
  Kikuube District: The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in collaboration with three other organisations has launched a project meant to ensure self-reliance, wellbeing and peaceful coexistence among the refugees and host communities in Kikuube and Hoima ...
 
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