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Uganda faces significant challenges in hosting Africa's largest displaced population, comprising over 1.6 million people from 14 nationalities, predominantly women and children under 18 years. Despite 90% of refugees living in rural settlements and engaging in small-scale agriculture, low productivity persists due to inadequate practices, technologies, and weather unpredictability. Limited access to formal employment and self-employment opportunities outside agriculture is hindered by inadequate qualifications and exacerbated by a lack of education among 40% of refugee household heads.
Despite being home to over 100,000 people, Nakivale lacked public access to books, limiting opportunities for growth and leisure reading. Alight's new Nakivale Library changed this, becoming a community hub for readers, writers, and all ages. A separate children's library was added to keep noise levels down in the main library. Additionally, there's an artists' corner, a writers' book club, and even writing contests and childcare opportunities.
Alight’s Safe Ride program in Uganda helps boda-boda (motorcycle taxi) drivers build a profitable, violence-preventing network. Safe Ride has turned boda-boda drivers into agents of positive change, enhancing safety and community income.
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On World Mental Health Day, Alight considers the importance of support for displaced people to heal and rebuild their lives after enduring violence and hardship.
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A space for women and girls becomes a thriving success when the women and girls themselves get to decide how it should run.
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In Uganda's Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, where nights are spent in darkness due to the lack of electricity, Alight 365 delivered solar lamps to 35 vulnerable individuals, offering safety and relief.
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Refugees who are blind face immense challenges in navigating their environment, but thanks to Alight 365, they are transforming their lives with newfound confidence and connection.
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Our team went to repaint the maternity ward at Uganda's Ariwa Health Center, but we shifted focus to more urgent tasks thanks to the flexibility of Alight 365.
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Alight's Safe Ride initiative began in Uganda's Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, providing motorcycles and training drivers, and has now expanded to six refugee settlements.
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Shelter Depot is a hardware store that treats refugees and displaced families as customers so they can build lives of wholeness and agency in the new country they are a part of.
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Alight is providing post-trauma counseling, working to prevent violence in the camp and helping run the reception center at Bidi Bidi.
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Treating refugees as customers, a new service now asks them if they were satisfied with the services at Nakivale refugee camp and if they have any ideas for improvement.
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