Every morning, Pamela followed the same routine. She would wake up early in the morning to prepare breakfast, lunch, and dinner for her two children. But, like many other women in her community, the Kamwenge refugee settlement in Uganda, she didn’t have the basic skills to prepare healthy meals.
Haley Adams, Food for Peace Officer at USAID Uganda, visited the Graduating to Resilience Activity in Kamwenge District in December 2019. The Activity aims to graduate 13,200 households (both refugee and host community), from conditions of food insecurity and fragile livelihoods to self-reliance and resilience. Graduating to Resilience is a seven-year USAID-funded program in Southwestern Uganda, now home to mostly Congolese and Rwandan refugees.
Haley Adams, Food for Peace Officer at USAID Uganda, visited the Graduating to Resilience Activity in Kamwenge District in December 2019. The Activity aims to graduate 13,200 households (both refugee and host community), from conditions of food insecurity and fragile livelihoods to self-reliance and resilience. Graduating to Resilience is a seven-year USAID-funded program in Southwestern Uganda, now home to mostly Congolese and Rwandan refugees.
Organized by USAID, AVSI and partners, the market event created connections between large firms, local micro-enterprises and vulnerable families in Rwanwanja Refugee Settlement
GRADUATING TO RESILIENCE, AN ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTED BY AVSI FOUNDATION AND FUNDED BY THE OFFICE OF FOOD FOR PEACE, USAID GIVES HOPE TO CONGOLESE REFUGEES LIKE NDABAGYIMANA TUYAMBAZE AND HER SEVEN CHILDREN AND HOST HOUSEHOLDS
