Uganda
Beginning in 2022, our long-term Gender-Equality Education program in Bidi-Bidi Refugee Settlement, Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement and Nakivale Refugee Settlement is directly focused on addressing and changing the reality of young girls dropping-out of school at primary level, enduring arranged-marriages, early pregnancies, gender-based violence, child-trafficking and forced-labour.
Bidi-Bidi Refugee Settlement
Is the second largest refugee settlement in the world, located on the Ugandan/South Sudanese border. The population is more than 250,000 and growing, of which 85% are women and children. The people living in this settlement have fled their country of origin due to the poverty, violence and atrocities of civil war.
Bidi-Bidi Refugee Settlement
Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement
Is located on the Ugandan/Congolese (DRC) border and has a population of more than 100,000 and growing, of which 82% are women and children. The populations living in this settlement have fled their country of origin due to the poverty, violence and atrocities of more than a decade of conflict, specifically the M23 rebellion and the broader Kivu conflict.
Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement
Nakivale Refugee Settlement
Is located near the Tanzanian border and has a population of more than 150,000 and growing, of which almost 75% are women, youth and/or children. The populations living in this settlement come from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia & Eritrea. It is one of the largest refugee settlements in the world and the oldest refugee settlement in Africa.