UCF RALD
Help us to help refugee women and youth in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda. Tax deductible for USA taxpayers.
The oldest refugee camp in Africa since 1958, Nakivale Camps are located on the south of Lake Nakivale, a large aquifer fed lake with no river. Over the decades the forest has been cut down for wood resources especially cooking, the land and the lake has been degraded.
Due to the large influx of refugees from eastern DRC over the past two years, now at around 200,000 refugees; and the conflicts in Sudan, Ukraine, and Palestine, the UNHCR and World Food Program has reduced its support for refugees, making already impoverished lives, feel hopeless.
It is not all bad news as refugees themselves, especially those who have been in Nakivale for a number of years already, have a range of occupational skills which can be developed into income making enterprises and as trainers of other refugees. International, Ugandan national and refugee trainers are standing by, to work in collaboration and mentorship, as soon as we can acquire the resources to make the training and physical projects happen.
Here is a showcase of how $USD1,400 through project leadership and management training, gave a sustainable boost to startups in dress-making, bakery, meat production, children arts education, and market income savings, including the expansion of these activities by training others.
UCF has partnered with the EcoRestoration Alliance to advance a number of startup projects in food production; home manufacture of necessities e.g. soap; incomes through 'farm' market enterprises; and health through clean lake water. All these projects are supported by developing specific projects in environmental restoration.
This program aims to raise a steady cash flow for projects that support and train women in regenerative agriculture and sustainable livelihood skills development including raising a generation of trainers to extend the training to increasing numbers of refugees.
Your contribution, especially if regular, will create a future for refugee women, many who have lost husbands to violence, have been severely traumatised by violence, themselves, and who are often raising orphans as well as their own children.
Choose your donation with the buttons here and when you click 'continue' you will be taken to the zeffy payment page of the EcoRestoration Alliance.