How Making Reusable Pads Is Helping Women In Bidibidi
By Cynthia Rukundo What became a sanitary pad for 28 year old Betty Tabu as she journeyed to Uganda three years ago from South Sudan was a piece of cloth. “On my way to Uganda,…
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While HIV/AIDS rates among refugees decline in Bidibidi settlement, positive refugees struggle due to lack of food
Many people living with HIV resist telling their life experience after contraction, while others develop drug resistance due to worries on how to survive on the medication without support. The dreams and visions were endless…
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The South Sudanese Refugee Dance Group with a Mission
By Caleb Okereke How a teenage dance group is using dance for peacebuilding and to heal from trauma. In the beginning, Joel Lasu’s, 19 idea to create a dance group in the Bidibidi refugee settlement…
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Vocational training center skills refugee youth in Bidibidi settlement
By Absolom Ochieng A vocational School in Bidi Bidi is training refugees and giving them skills that can enable them become self sustaining, instead of perpetually waiting for external help within the Refugee Settlement. With…
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Drama as a cure for trauma to refugee children
The conflict that spread into South Sudan on the borders of northern Uganda left hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese to seek refuge in Uganda.In December 2016, the Ugandan government created Bidibidi refugee settlement in…
Read MoreSomali mother of six finds a home in Uganda
Fleeing the crossfire pitting militant groups and Islamic Courts Union against Ethiopian troops and government forces, Abshiro Ali left Somalia to look for a safe haven for her children. Abshiro met this reporter for an…
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The rise of hope in South Sudan
South Sudanese have gone through a difficult historical period. No one wishes to go through that history at personal level. Bit women, men, youth or children, none of them would wish to experience this in…
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