Since the onset of the conflicts in South Sudan in 2014, over 800,000 South Sudanese fled their homes to Uganda seeking safety from the fighting. Oxfam has been responding to the South Sudanese refugee influx since the onset of the conflicts in 2014, and with funding from agencies and affiliates like KLUB, Oxfam IBIS, Oxfam Hong Kong and Oxfam Belgium, we have been able to enroll youths-- both refugees and host community members in vocational skills training, bricklaying and concrete practice, tailoring, hairdressing, motor repairs, carpentry among others.
Besides the vocational skills, refugees have also been supported with agricultural inputs in form of vegetable seeds, beans, groundnuts, onions, as well as farm tools like hoes, garden forks among others. They have also been trained in general agronomy, group dynamics, farming as a business and post-harvest handling.
Read some of the stories from the benefactors of the Livelihoods project.