Uganda: assisting refugees in times of COVID-19
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Imagine you have no identity documents and you are sheltering as a refugee in a strange country. You can’t go to a public hospital, apply for assistance from local authorities, get an education or even get married. How can children and other vulnerable people, including young women, be protected? How can those with special needs be assisted?
Uganda hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world, sheltering over 1.4 million refugees fleeing conflicts in South Sudan, DRC and other neighbouring countries. Contrary to what happens in the majority of similar cases, refugees do not live in camps, but have been granted small plots of land to build their own houses and grow their own vegetables.