LHI provides children with the opportunity to have an education by providing scholastic requirements such as materials, fees, Follow-up and Psychosocial support .
Education is vital for helping children develop healthily to become productive members of society. However, refugee children are 5 times less likely to attend school than their counterparts. Furthermore, they are likely to have experienced trauma and require further psycho-social support.
Uganda hosts one of the biggest percentage of refugees in the world and more continue to arrive. Many have experienced extreme violence. They have been welcomed into some of the poorest parts of the country, putting further strain on already limited resources in host communities. Yet, most children are not getting the education they deserve:
Without intervention refugee children, such as those at the Kyaka II refugee settlement, are set to continue living a life of poverty, with a potential future of drugs, criminal activity, and prostitution.
LHI has created a program in order to aid such children. This program provides children at the Kyaka II refugee settlement with the financial, material and psycho-social support they need to not only attend school, but to finish at least until the end of the primary level.
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By receiving an education, these children have a brighter future, with the possibility to fulfil their dreams of becoming educated professionals, such as doctors or teachers, and further benefiting their community.
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