“While the pandemic has affected all communities, refugees have been hit particularly hard especially women and children”.
A recent UNHCR/World Bank phone survey reveals the devastating toll of COVID-19 on the living conditions of refugees in Uganda and highlights the need for strengthened support to refugee communities, to mitigate the suffering inflicted by the pandemic.
The survey shows that refugees in Uganda were faring far worse than their host community on key dimensions to welfare, such as employment, food security and mental health. It adds to UNHCR’s own recording of an alarming increase in the number of suicides among refugees, linked to the pandemic’s disastrous socio-economic impact.
A big number of refugees live with the resources from host community through labor. Closure of their ways to the host community is one of the big challenges which results to the hunger.
COVID-19 impacts on refugees include:
- Hunger, Poverty, Malnutrition and poor health
- Decrease of the monthly financial support from UN agencies because of which also was not enough to feed a family and to provide other needs such as children’s education, clothes etc.
- Unemployment and Business closure
- Lack of safety and labor protection
- Different Types of abuse including domestic and Sexual & Gender based violence -SGBV.
- Prostitution and its consequences which include increase in population and Sexual Transmitted diseases- STDs
- Child labor
- Trauma and Depression
“More resources are needed to meet not only the basic needs of refugees, including food and access to water, but also to provide better support for livelihoods, education and mental health.”
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