Bidibidi Refugee Settlement is located in Northern Uganda near the South Sudan border and home to 287,000 South Sudan refugees. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on one day alone, 4,373 new refugees crossed the border into Uganda.
I spent almost two weeks in 2019 continuing my documentary work from two years ago with The Walking School Bus (TWSB) now known as the Simbi Foundation.
A teacher with a baby prepares a class.
During a break, students from Tulajiji Primary School within Bidibidi Refugee Settlement drink from a public well.
A meeting in a makeshift church consisting of women who attended a gender based analysis organised by TWSB. Here they discussed and raised issues important to women within Bidibidi Refugee Settlement.
Although this classroom is a permanent structure, it is overcrowded and under resourced. 3.5 million children inside HNHCR refugee settlements did not attend school in 2018.
A rural area in zone 1 in Bidibidi Settlement in Northern Uganda.
Two girls naturally fall into a pose at Bidibidi Refugee Settlement.
Near the food distribution centre at zone 1 Bidibidi Refugee Settlement Northern Uganda. Families chip in together to hire cheap cars to transport their once a month food rations.
People line up for their monthly food rations at the UNHCR food distribution centre in zone 1 in Bidibidi refugee settlement in Northern Uganda.
Near the food distribution centre at zone 1 Bidibidi refugee settlement Northern Uganda.
An Ebola warning poster is pinned to a notice board in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement. The Ebola virus has now been reported in Southern Uganda.
3.5 million children inside HNHCR refugee settlements did not attend school ion 2018. 40% of primary school students and 88% of secondary students are not enrolled in any school.
