When refugees leave their homes, they often don’t have much time - if any - to prepare. They run with just the clothes on their back, not knowing exactly where they’ll end up. Or where their next meal will come from. “When I ran, I had only this one piece of clothing,” said one young boy to Hildah, ARC’s Protection Manager in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement. “And that was one child with a mother,” Hildah said. “The children who come without mothers and fathers, it is the neighbor who comes to us and says, ‘You see this one child? She is alone. She doesn’t even have clothes to wear.'” Clothes are not hard to find in Uganda - unless you’re a newly arrived refugee in Bidi Bidi. And it’s especially hard for those children who reach Bidi Bidi completely alone, as hundreds of them have. One of our jobs in Bidi Bidi is to place these kids with foster families - but foster families are refugees themselves. They often have a difficult time providing the extra support that the child … [Read more...] about A Second Shirt