Uganda

Due to war in South Sudan, Uganda has welcomed over a million South Sudanese refugees, sympathetic to their plight after experiencing many years of war itself. The refugees have fled horrific violence with many families getting separated in their journey to safety.  Female refugees and local women are active in delivering help and support in the refugee camps.

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I arrived in Bidi Bidi refugee camp alone in October 2016. My family and I got separated when we fled fighting in South Sudan. I still do not know where they are. READ STORY Ferida Marmin I never knew my father. He died before I was born in the conflict in Uganda. When I was six years old, my mother realised she could not look after all seven of her children. She took me, the last born, to live with nuns, a family of women. READ STORY Ritah Nansereko In March 2017, I got a phone call from my mother while in school, she told me that the war had come to our village and to rush home. READ STORY Sylvia Maneno

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