REFUGEES CRY FOR HUMANITARIAN AID

Refugee orphans at Mugenyi Refugee Youth Centre in Uganda

By Takesure Matewa

 War, famine, and political instability in many countries are the major push factors that lead people to flee their countries of birth to seek refuge in neighboring countries.

This is the case with Hubert Mweenze Brezillien, a Congolese refugee whose parents were murdered in cold blood back in Congo.

Hubert managed to flee and sought refuge in neighboring Uganda.

We had an interview with Hubert, A 22-year-old refugee who is the founder of Mungenyi Refugee Youth Centre to get more information about his organization.

"I am in Mungenyi Village, in Nakivale Refugee Camp a home to more than 2000 families who are refugees from Congo and Somalia."

"Among us, there are 217 (orphans) children of deceased refugees," Hubert told this publication.

"Some of these children are attending school and others are not, 15% of them are orphans"

Hubert said that as refugees from different African countries including Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, and South Sudan they have their challenges.

Some of the challenges they are facing include lack of basic needs, food, clean water, and clothing.

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Orphaned children at Mugenyi Youth Refugee center

The organization had started building a school but the project, unfortunately, stopped due to lack of funding.

"School children attend classes from morning to lunchtime and go to do extra-curricula activities like sports mainly football, Netball, and Volleyball".

" They are learning under very bad conditions, We need to build classrooms," Remarked Hubert

Hubert with the Mugenyi Centre children

"We are appealing for assistance with monthly running costs of the organization."said Hubert

Those who wants to stretch their hands and assist the organisation are free to contact Hubert on the details below to arrange a direct visit to the Refugee Center or to arrange a method of getting their donations get to Mugenyi Refugee Youth Center

Directly 

Donors are allowed to come to the camp.

Or alternatively contact Hubert on the following details

bresilienhubert@gmail.com WhatsApp number +256779164569

Or my Facebook address 

All donation are received through my SIM card account by the mobile money agency 

Through different international Agencies 

REMITLY

World remit agency 

SEND WAVE 

WESTERN UNION 

my bank account still in process

If you wish to help, get more details and pictures of the situation by contacting the Editor on this email address:envirosocafrica@yahoo.com or use our Contact Form found on the right side of this article on the Mobile Version

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURE CONSERVATION

Potatoes grown in bags

 In most societies in Africa and elsewhere in the world women have little knowledge about nature conservation, climate change, and environmental protection.

We caught up with Catherine Nchimbi, a young woman from Tanzania, East Africa who is doing a lot of work in empowering both rural and urban women by teaching them about Climate Change and conservation.

She told this publication about her long passion-driven journey to empower communities, particularly women by teaching them about waste collection and sustainable agriculture.

As a young community leader with a clean environment at heart, she says she started teaching women about waste collection and sorting in  Tanzania.

Catherine has also brought some sustainable agriculture skills by teaching communities to grow their food in bags filled with compost, "This method of farming is suitable for those with little farming space, most of them who are residing in urban areas," she explained.

Her other projects included having workshops where she started teaching women about how to collect and separate waste according to its different types.

"Most women didn't know that mixed and dirty waste is hard to sell, I started teaching them to sort the waste according to its types," said Nchimbi.

"I also taught them how they can make valuable things out of waste, For example, Coconut shells can be used to make beautiful jewelry," Nchimbi added.

Catherine who is the Programs Director for We Naturalists Africa is also into Nature and Wildlife Conservation where she has been teaching rural communities who stay close to Wild Life parks about the importance of getting involved in Wildlife and Nature Conservation.

"Some of the challenges I face during my work of educating these communities is meeting well-educated people who know what Climate Change is all about but simply doesn't want to do the right thing as well as the issue of patriarchy in some communities and lack of transport and education among community members.

"I tried to encourage members to do some training to learn certain skills but in some cases, community members don't have basic education t  help them understand better". she added

Despite all these challenges Catherine hasn't given up on teaching women about nature conservation and climate change, she is in the process of establishing her NGO that will focus much on teaching women conservation, environmental protection, and climate change.

Away from her daily office job, Catherine is also into nature and wildlife photography.