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Sandra in her hair saloon. Photo credit:Viktorija Jeras/Oxfam

For Sandra, Dreams Do Come True

Her name is Sandra and she is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). She came to Uganda in 2001 at the age of eight, fleeing the violence in the DRC together with her mother and…

Esperanza, 16, after receiving a mosquito net in Kyakya II. “We depend on the external help here,” she says. Photo credit: Viktorija Jeras / Oxfam

I was scared to death - Esperanza's story

Esperanza says that one day she would like to go back to school. This is one of her biggest hopes for the future. In the DRC, she stopped studying a couple of years ago because her father could not…

40 year old Kambese infront of his tent in KyakaII Refugee settlement. Photo credit: Julius Kasuja/Oxfam

The Dream To Find My Family Keeps Me Strong

Kambese Mubawa is a 40-year-old from Kiwanga village, Rutushuru zone, North Kivu Province. He fled the Democratic Republic of Congo because of the conflicts in his region. He unfortunately lost some…

Women at the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in Uganda in May 2017 voice their concern at the 50 percent cut in cereal rations each person was receiving.

‘Refugee is just a name’: one Ugandan’s quest to help her neighbors

Growing up, Jean-Christabel Asipkwe took a different path than many of her female contemporaries in Uganda, where girls often don’t get the same educational opportunities as boys. She went to school—…

The cassava project project focuses on cassava, one of the most important staple crops in Northern Uganda. Photo credit:Oxfam

Tubers for business

Cassava Applied Research for Food Security is a 3-year project (2016-2018) designed to improve the food security situation of 2,500 direct beneficiaries of which 60% are female in districts of Pader…

Sarah, the chairperson of a handicrafts group in Bidibidi refugee setttlement, uses a microphone to call women to join her group. Photo: Kieran Doherty/Oxfam

Rebuilding lives with beads and a megaphone

In Uganda’s Bidibidi refugee resettlement camp, one woman is helping others make money—and heal—through a jewelry-making group. Forced from their homes after three years of brutal…

Oruukit Farmers’ Group members during a cassava variety yield tasting in Pader district. Photo credit:Oxfam

Food Rights Alliance - Our partner in creating a world free from hunger

The world produces enough foods to feed everyone but up to 795 million people of whom 70% are directly involved in production are malnourished. UNFAO also estimates that 800 million people go to bed…

The use of Tippy Taps has been adopted in Rhinocamp settlement as a proper hygiene practice. photo credit: Oxfam

Toilet tales and positive attitude change

Oxfam, together with Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) partners in emergencies came together to commemorate the World Toilet Day on 23rd November 2017, in Rhino Camp Settlement, Arua.It was an…

Oxfam in Uganda Country Director Peter Kamalingin joins Dynamic music group in a song on health. Photo credit: Oxfam

Who is a leader?

This is the question the Country Director Peter Kamalingin posed to the refugee community of Rhino Refugee Settlement in Arua district northern Uganda during a recent monitoring visit.Speaking to the…

Resilient Livelihoods

RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS

Uganda as a country faces a number of socio-cultural, economic and political challenges, which perpetuate high levels of poverty and inequality. This limits participation of vulnerable groups,…

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