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Success Stories

A Journey to resilience through Interpersonal Group Therapy

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United by a shared experience of displacement and the struggles it entails, twelve South Sudanese refugee women sought solace and support in therapeutic sessions of group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-G) offered through a partnership between StrongMinds and the Alliance Forum for Development (AFOD) within the Adjumani settlements. As they shared their stories, a common theme emerged; […]

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Building refugee resilience at household level through backyard gardening.

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In 2020, World Food Programme announced a food ration reduction to 60% for all refugee settlements in Uganda due to donor funding constraints. The situation was further worsened by Covid 19 outbreak which affected many refugee’s thus increasing food insecurity and vulnerabilities. According to Food security and Nutrition Assessments report-FSNA 2020, only 40.9% of refugees

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FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN THROUGH CARE GROUPs: A Story of Jennifer

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Jennifer is a South Sudanese refugee living with six children and her husband in the Bidibidi refugee settlement in Yumbe district. Before AFOD intervention, she described herself as a poor miserable housewife with no plans for self-improvement. ‘’ I didn’t know how to read or write my own name, poverty was smiling at my home,

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Improving Lives through VSLAs: Logworong’s Story

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Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) are a sustainable saving mechanism that is rapidly growing in both refugee and host communities’ in Palorinya refugee settlement . AFOD-Uganda in partnership with Palm Corps is enhancing sustainable livelihood among refugees by equipping them with knowledge and skills in farming and financial literacy through farmer groups and VSLA

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Change champion Anzoa promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health in Moyo

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Gladys Anzoa is a 24-year-old adolescent change champion from Odiya Village, Logoba Sub County in Moyo district. She acknowledges the challenges many girls face in her community. “Many young girls want nice things and when their parents don’t give them, they want to get them from the boys who will later ask for sex in

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The impact of “Go back to school campaign”

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The covid-19 pandemic exacerbated Uganda’s already-existing problem of teen pregnancy. The pandemic caused disruptions in access to health and social services, resulted in over 32,000 teenage pregnancies reported on average per month, according to the UN Population Fund research. Districts in the West Nile region are still dealing with the consequences of an increased number of

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Championing interventions to improve immunization regimens for unreached and under-immunized children by Care Group Volunteers (CGVs)-Bidi-Bidi refugee settlement

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Immunization is a proven strategy for reducing morbidity and mortality among children. Uganda has specifically accomplished greatly on enhancing its routine immunization (RI) system. However, despite the achievements, the coverage is uneven and equity in access to vaccination remains a challenge for children under the age of 5. A large number of children were unimmunized,

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Empowering refugees through backyard gardening-Palorinya refugee settlement

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AFOD in consortium with Palm Corps through complementary activities on backyard gardening has established vegetable demonstration sites at all the food distribution points with the aim of ensuring smallholder farmers and individuals learn and replicate backyard gardening. Below are testimonies of beneficiaries who have benefitted from the project: “The south Sudan war had a far-reaching

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