Refugee camp projects
Thousands enter refugee camps having fled their homes with nothing but the clothes on their back. Lifewater help their situation by giving them access to safe drinking water.
We seek to help the most vulnerable people
Lifewater is currently working in two large Ugandan Refugee Camps: Kyaka II Refugee Camp – home to more than 135,000 refugees for DR Congo and Rwanda; and Nakivale Refugee Settlement – home to more than 275,000 refugees from mainly DR Congo. Working with national and International bodies we have been especially targeting families with special needs, providing them with life-saving water purification systems.
Refugee camps like these are bursting at the seams
Over the past couple of years, Lifewater has been privileged to work within two large Ugandan Refugee settlements. The first, Kyaka II Camp, is a long-established Refugee settlement in central Uganda. It was first used in the 1990s to house Rwandan refugees fleeing from the pending Rwandan genocide. Today, most of the new arrivals at the Camp are from Eastern DR Congo, where they had fled from indiscriminate attacks from local militia groups, who loot, burn, rape and kill, striking terror into many who are forced to flee for their lives. In recent years Kyaka II Camp has grown from 30,000 to well over 135,000 residents. The second Camp, Nakivale Refugee Settlement, is also in Western Uganda. This Camp houses more than 275,000 refugees, largely from DR Congo.
We run projects to distribute water purification kits
The work of Lifewater in these two camps has mainly been to distribute household water purification systems to families who have members with special needs, ranging from physical and mental problems to child-parented families.
As with our Village projects, the monitoring work of our Lifewater teams on the ground in the Camps is essential for the ongoing sustainability of the projects.
Lifewater works closely, in both Camps, with the UNHCR, with the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and other national and International NGOs. The work in both Camps is sponsored by partners including Water Works.
