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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Voices unlocked: How children in Uganda are turning smartphones into storytelling tools.

Voices unlocked: In Uganda, children are turning smartphones into storytelling tools, using mobile journalism to shine a light on their communities, challenges, and opportunities and inspire change. Since its launch in 2019, World Vision Uganda’s MOJO initiative has trained youth to script, film, edit, and produce impactful stories using smartphones. This empowers them to share their lived experiences and push for change in their communities.

Charles Kabogoza was appointed to the Covid-19 District Tasforce

Charles Kabogoza: Hero on the frontline in western Uganda

By Emmanuel A. Okello, Communications Officer, Uganda “When one of the first cases of COVID-19 was identified, it created a lot of anxiety, fear and...

A meeting organised by World Vision Uganda

Fighting the stigma of testing positive for COVID-19

By Charles Kaboggoza, Area Programme Manager, Kyabigambire, Hoima Cluster, western Uganda The Uganda Government’s response in preventing the spread of...

Even at home, children can enjoy a fulfilling learning experience

COVID-19: 10 tips for parents to keep children learning despite school closure

By John Kamwaka Twesigye, Techincal Program Manager Education, World Vision Uganda Uganda is under lockdown following measures to control the spread of the...

Samuel listens to music during the lockdown

COVID-19: Coping with a lockdown in a refugee settlement

Families tell us how they are coping with the lockdown in their Uganda refugee settlement during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Meet William, a 14 year old helping to fight COVID-19 in his Community

William is from South Sudan, and he stays in Omugo refugee settlement in Uganda's West Nile Region. He is in Primary 4, but since schools were closed to...

Response starts in Uganda

World Vision launches a US$ 1M COVID-19 Emergency Response in Uganda

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On April 2, World Vision in Uganda announced it has designated over US$1,010,000 (3 billion UGX) from its different programmes in...

Staff offloading soap

COVID-19: World Vision starts emergency response in Ugandan refugee settlements

By Aggrey Nyondwa Kikobera, Joanitah Asiimire, Communication Officials, World Vision Uganda Children and other vulnerable groups in fragile contexts are...

The project has changed people's mindsets towards people with disabilities

Inclusive project restores dignity and hope to people with disabilities

By Derrick Kyatuka, Communications Officer, World Vision On a sunny morning in the Drikua village in Arua District. Richard Padriku, 30, a visually...

A volunteer checking beneficiary temperatures

COVID-19: Food distribution in Bidibidi settlement continues

With new measures and guidelines in place, World Vision and World Food Programme continue food distribution By: Derrick Kyatuka, Aggrey Nyondwa Kikobera -...

fishing uganda

Fish and rabbit farming providing hope and income for communities in Parolinya-Obongi district

By: Derrick Kyatuka, Communications Officer, World Vision Since the outbreak of the civil war in South Sudan from December 2013, thousands of people sought...

Children washing hands

COVID-19: Children in West Nile will be the ambassadors of prevention

By Derrick Kyatuka, Communications Officer, West Nile Refugee Response The world is shaken with the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), which was...

Farmers in Oyam district work together under the umbrella of cooperatives

Working together helps farmers in Oyam District change their fortune

By Emmanuel A. Okello, Communications Officer For years, northern Uganda has been plagued with poverty. Even with vast fertile land, farmers engage in...

Savings Group shaped Akao's dream to build a permanent home

By Emmanuel A. Okello, Communications Officer When Rose Akao, 76, joined Acan Kwite Savings Group in 2012, little did she know she was in for a life...

Josephine in class

Josephine sells part of her monthly food ration to stay in school

By: Derrick Kyatuka, Communications Officer, World Vision Education is no stranger to 18-year-old Josephine Aber. In 2015, before the civil war in South...

Animals in Karamoja

Millions of livestock at risk following locust invasion in the Karamoja region of Uganda

Aggrey Nyondwa Kikobera, Communications Official, World Vision Uganda It has been over a week now since locusts crossed into Uganda from Kenya. The...

Maurine and Annette

Unity in diversity changes the fortunes of refugees and host communities

By Aggrey Nyondwa Kikobera, Communications Official, World Vision Uganda On a very bad day in December 2016, Annette Mura had nothing to eat or feed her...

Working together for cash and peace

Hundreds benefit from cash for work done in refugee settlements in Uganda

By: Derrick Kyatuka, Communications Officer, West Nile Refugee Response The civil war that broke out in South Sudan in December 2013, saw thousands flee to...

Lina Auma posing next to her superwoman portrait

Lina found her hope in the stroke of a paint brush

By Aggrey Nyondwa Kikobera and Derrick Kyatuka-Communication Officials for World Vision in Uganda The ravages of war, the pain of facing life without a...

The number of girls staying in school has increased

Education project stems child marriages in Karamoja

Teresa Doreen Nakong wants to be a nurse By Emmanuel A. Okello, Communications Officer, World Vision “My parents did not want me to go to school. They...

Working together for cash and peace

Livelihoods project unites South Sudanese refugees in Uganda

By: Derrick Kyatuka, World Vision Communications Officer, West Nile Refugee Response Since its Independence in 2011, South Sudan has been battling ethnic...

World Vision Equips Hospitals with Neonatal Equipment, Maternity Wards

By: Derrick Kyatuka, World Vision Communications Officer, West Nile Refugee Response Lynnette Anyango’s daughter was born 10 weeks early by normal delivery...

Alice Joan Munduwa, the hero in a sick child's story

Alice Joan; the hero in a sick child’s story!

by Aggrey Nyondwa Kikobera, World Vision Communications official, Uganda Being a refugee as a child is tough; growing up away from home, being away from...

The Joy of having plenty of food in the house. Aline 10 and her brother Ndahanye 6 full of smiles knowing that today was distribution day and their mother came back home with a lot of food.

Today, We Eat; The Story of a Food Distribution for Refugees in Uganda

Aggrey Nyondwa, Refugee Response Communications Coordinator At the break of day on Monday, October 21, on a muddy and slippery road, Tonny Obura, 45, a...

Debate Participants

Children Use Debate to Foster Peaceful Co-existence in Omugo Settlement

By: Derrick Kyatuka, Communications Officer, West Nile Refugee Response. At exactly 9:30 am pupils from the Ambassador of Peace Club of Komoyo Primary...