Poor Response to Funding Appeals for Refugees in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
(LWI) - Since the December 2013 outbreak of violence in South Sudan, food insecurity has deteriorated at an alarming rate in the three conflict-affected…
How Borehole Committees Regulate Water Supply in Uganda
(LWI) – “We no longer need to fetch water from the murky pond you passed on the way here,” Habyara says. “Now, our children are healthier, and no longer have intestinal worms or skin…
Giving Hope and Material Support to Traumatized Refugees
(LWI) – When she speaks, her voice is barely audible. Sixteen-year-old Mary (all names changed) did not choose to be a mother, but a week ago she gave birth to a baby boy, whom she…
(LWI) – “I had five children. All of them were killed,” Bernadetta Myanura says. The elderly woman has a scar on her arm. Her granddaughter is all the family she has left. The 14-year-old-girl is…
ADJUMANI, Uganda / GENEVA, 20 June 2015 (LWI) – It’s exam time in Ayilo 1 primary school, but Nyaring’s (not her real name) smiling face indicates that maths and social science were not too…
(LWI) - “I came to Adjumani with only the clothes on my back and just one Sudanese pound. I was 12-years-old, alone and afraid,” 14-year-old Gift Minzi says.
(LWI) - Gender-based violence and poor access to education are among the major human rights challenges for refugees in south western Uganda. That was made clear during a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) workshop at the end of 2015 for local staff…
(LWI) - “Someone told me: statistics are human beings with the tears dried off,” Bishop Susan Johnson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada says. “Having the chance to meet refugees…
