Refugee Integration through Strategic Empowerment (RISE) Uganda
RISE envisions an Africa where refugees and forced migrants feel at home away from their original communities, amidst the enormous challenges they encounter either in transit or in settlements…Read More
Mission:
RISE’s mission is to facilitate, advocate and promote the integration of refugees and internally displaced persons to live in harmony with communities in which they find themselves.
These, we do by:
- Creating an enabling environment by fostering positive relationships with and among host communities
- Supporting role through peer-to-peer interactions; legal aid, protection, emergencies and relief supports.
- Empowerment. This we undertake so refugees and forced migrants are able to become self-reliant, self-sufficient and able to perform positive economic roles towards prosperity of economies where they find themselves in.
- Environment and climate change - involvement and activities: This we undertake, so refugees and displaced persons are able to join the rest of the global communities to offset global carbon footprints as well as help restore physical environments degraded by human activities.
What We Do
Literacy trainings
Factors leading to displacement of people do not segregate on age, gender or literacy levels. It affects all categories. Refugees and forced migrants find themselves in awkward environments where cultures are often a shock as a result of especially language barriers.
Soap making
Refuges have several needs that go unmet. The most basic human needs of food, shelter, medical care negates hygiene. The prices of commodities such as soap, sanitizers are relatively high for refugees.
Environment services and Briquettes making
RISE recognizes the footprint of the globe on climate. We acknowledge the impacts of mass settlements on the physical environment. RISE deliberately interests itself in partaking in efforts that encourages and supports vegetative regeneration.
Business skills trainings
Factors leading to displacement of people do not segregate on age, gender or literacy levels. It affects all categories. Refugees and forced migrants find themselves in awkward environments where cultures are often a shock as a result of especially language barriers.
Emergencies and relief
Refuges have several needs that go unmet. The most basic human needs of food, shelter, medical care negates hygiene. The prices of commodities such as soap, sanitizers are relatively high for refugees.
Advocay
The work of a refugee support agency can be daunting. Some countries and or communities may not be as welcoming and accommodative as others. Uganda has provided one of the best supportive environments in which refugees and forced migrants are welcomed and supported to live in the country.
Advocacy forms part of core engagements RISE undertakes so communities can support forced migrants as much.
RISE undertakes advocacy work either solely or in concert with other collaborators.
