48 , Thursday, October 3, 2019 CLIENT FEATURE Germany, EU give support to displaced to by the on-going conflict in their country, according to statistics released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees early this year. Most of the refugees abandon their possessions in hree years ago, their homeland and have to Amos Aligo build a new life in a foreign was a high- land from scratch, as Anna flying youth Apiya, formerly a teacher at in the South Loka Primary School in town Sudan’s Yei district, narrates of Yei whose in an interview at Rhino Camp life – in his own words – was Refugee Settlement. T“so fine that I had a vision of “When I came here I had what I wanted to do in years nothing. Even when I tried to come”. to get a job as a teacher in The 28-year-old earned Uganda, I could not because a living working as a the education system here is customer care agent for different,” said the 30-year- telecommunications giant old. MTN South Sudan and, The influx of refugees from together with his wife Harriet South Sudan led to an overall Dawa, raised their three increase in population in children. settlements such as Rhino In July 2016, clashes in the camp in district, as well capital Juba between rival as adjoining areas. factions of the South Sudan This then exerted more People’s Liberation Army loyal pressure on host community to President Salva Kiir and his Beneficiaries of the rise project during the training at Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in resources. deputy Riek Machar began. On June 22-23, 2017, They set off a chain of on December 21, 2016, and allocated two acres of land to German government and the are moving on fairly well Uganda hosted a solidarity events whose ripple effects was resettled at Rhino Camp farm. European Union. compared to the years when summit for refugees, jointly forced Aligo to seek refuge in Refugee Settlement in the This year, he joined a “Life started with a lot of we had just arrived,” he said. chaired by President Museveni Uganda. West Nile region district of farmers’ group, which is now challenges but, now, I am Aligo is one of the more and the UN Secretary General, Aligo arrived on the Arua. receiving support through a seeing a bit of change. than half a million South Antonio Guterres, in a bid Ugandan side of the border Last year, Aligo was programme supported by the “We are settled and things Sudan nationals who were to address the challenges

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