UGANDA | YTT

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.

A local teacher participating in the YTT Gender-Equality Educator-Training
in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement.

A few of our local teachers participating in the YTT Gender-Equality
Educator-Training in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement.

The local teachers and some of the YTT team working together in Bidi
Bidi Refugee Settlement.

Some of our local teachers participating in the YTT Gender-Equality
Educator-Training in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement.

YTT trained school teacher Victoria Aletiru from Koro Primary School receiving her Roma Tr

YTT trained school teacher Phiona Ayakaka from Alaba Primary School receiving her Roma Tre

YTT trained school teacher Benard Temadri from Koro Primary School receiving his Roma Tre

YTT trained school teacher Agnes Moonlight from Highland Secondary School receiving her Ro

YTT trained school teacher Mudasiri Wajarasu from Kena Valley Primary School receiving his

YTT teachers and students from Koro Primary School_

YTT teachers and students from Highland Secondary School_

YTT teachers and students from Kena Valley Primary School_

YTT teachers and students from Alaba Primary School_

Teachers from Kena Valley Primary School, Alaba Primary School and Kodese Primary School p

Young school children from different refugee schools inside Bidi Bidi participating in the

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.

The YTT Gender-Equality Education program implemented in the local communities

“Students from Rwamwanja, Nteziryayo & Kyempango Primary Schools learning the YTT Gender-

Students from Rwamwanja, Nteziryayo & Kyempango Primary Schools learning the YTT Gender-E

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.