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Uganda, April 2022

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1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Tailor Scovia Maia (right) meets with Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt (left) and Bishop Jones Ole Meliyio of the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church (centre) as she works at her shop in the Nyumanzi settlement in Adjumani. 28-year-old tailor Scovia Maia offers up dresses and other crafted items for sale. A refugee from Nimule in South Sudan, Maia says she arrived in Nyumanzi in 2017 with skills but no tools to build a business. “Now, with help from the LWF and UNHCR, I am running a small-scale business, and I train others in tailoring too. I sleep well, and I can eat good food,” she says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.

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Uganda, April 2022
1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Tailor Scovia Maia (right) meets with Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt (left) and Bishop Jones Ole Meliyio of the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church (centre) as she works at her shop in the Nyumanzi settlement in Adjumani. 28-year-old tailor Scovia Maia offers up dresses and other crafted items for sale. A refugee from Nimule in South Sudan, Maia says she arrived in Nyumanzi in 2017 with skills but no tools to build a business. “Now, with help from the LWF and UNHCR, I am running a small-scale business, and I train others in tailoring too. I sleep well, and I can eat good food,” she says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda.