Projects’ Summaries
Disrupting HIV/AIDS Through Education and Economic Empowerment Among Refugees”
The project integrates three key factors that include; cultural dialogues, economic empowerment and HIV/AIDs information dissemination in local language and training Community Health Workers….
Youth Empowerment Scholarship (YES)
Launched in 2018, Youth Empowerment Scholarship (YES) is a refugee educational program of the Young Adult Empowerment Initiative (YEI), that pays tuitions for unaccompanied South Sudanese refugee children in Uganda Settlements,who demonstrate academic excellence but cannot be in the classrooms due to lack of financial support. ….
COVID-19 awareness-raising and provision of PPEs among refugees in Kiryandongo Settlemen
When the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Uganda in March, there were fears and panics that it could have devastating effects on the refugees. Bweyale camp, in Kiryandongo is highly congested, …..
South Sudan’s Out of School Children (OoSC) Nationwide Mapping Exercise.
The goal and specific objectives of the National OoSC mapping exercise include: 1) To gather demographic and related data to identifying profiles of OoSC, specific supply and demand side issues contributing to their exclusion,…..
Refugee women Empowerment for GBV Mitigation and become peace partners in
communities.
Our 2016 preliminary survey on GBV in four refugee settlements indicates that violence against women indeed poses imminent threats to their participation in peacebuilding efforts and communities initiatives.Over 70% of women and girls who participated in our surveys admitted being victims of GBV. ,…..
Intercultural Dialogue: Building a Shared South Sudan Identity.
With the support from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Young Adult Empowerment Initiative and other members of Network of South Sudan’s Civil Society in Uganda (NoSSCOU) had organized a series of public events on intercultural dialogues to bring different South Sudanese ,…..