How LWF improves water supply and sanitation in the refugee settlement
(LWI) – These days, the Njumanzi settlement is growing again. Renewed insecurity in South Sudan has caused people to cross the border into north Uganda. As Uganda…
Rape survivor a tireless worker for refugee women’s rights in Uganda
(LWI) - Shantal M is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The mother of three arrived in Uganda in 2012 where The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)…
ADJUMANI (Uganda)/ GENEVA, 7 September 2016 (LWI) – Six weeks after an outbreak of violence in South Sudan forced tens of thousands to flee, the situation of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda is still critical. More than 70,000 have fled…
Bukoba Lutheran Bishop: Many people are “deeply shaken”
(LWI) – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) together with its diaconal arm, and The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) are reaching out to families affected by the 5.7…
Courses on fuel-efficiency foster peace between refugees and hosts in Uganda
(LWI) – “By the end of the day, we expect to complete four stoves,” says Drichi Godfrey, a 26-year-old refugee from South Sudan. He, his wife and the two…
ADJUMANI, Uganda/ GENEVA, 25 November 2016 (LWI) – “I did not have a say in whatever was arranged. The only time I had ever met the man I was supposed to marry was at family functions. I always thought he was one of those distant family members,…
(LWI) – “The world became silent and it felt like I was the only one in it.” Molly Aringo, 48, uses these words to describe the day she was diagnosed with HIV. For her it meant the end of life…
Thousands flee civil war in South Sudan every week
MOYO, Uganda/GENEVA, 16 January 2016 (LWI) - The peak is over, but the numbers are still overwhelming: about 700 refugees arrive in the LWF transit center in Lefori, Uganda, every day.…
