{"id":62081,"date":"2022-03-28T17:29:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/chevening-alumni-seek-shs150m-for-pwds-refugees"},"modified":"2022-03-28T18:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T17:58:11","slug":"chevening-alumni-seek-shs150m-for-pwds-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/chevening-alumni-seek-shs150m-for-pwds-refugees","title":{"rendered":"Chevening alumni seek Shs150m for PWDs, refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Chevening Alumni Association of Uganda, or CAAU, plans to raise Shs155m to establish a computer lab for urban refugees and build a modern resource centre at Kampala School for the Physically Handicapped.<\/p>\n

The initiatives, according to the association chairperson, Ms Helen Kawesa, are in line with alumni commitment to give back to the community.<\/p>\n

The computer lab to be established at Young African Refugees for Integrated Developments (YARID) headquarters in Nsambya, Kampala, is to promote digital skilling for refugees, while the support to School of the Handicapped, also in the capital, aims to promote education that is inclusive of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).<\/p>\n

A 2016 Uganda Bureau of Statistics survey indicates that 12 percent of Ugandans live with a form of disability with a slightly higher number in children aged five years and above.<\/p>\n

\u201cDigital skilling will help them to use the information they are armed with in research and networking\u2026,\u201d Ms Helen Kawesa said last Friday during a stakeholder\u2019s conference held at Protea Hotel to start the fund-raising drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been training youthful refugees to raise awareness so that they can be self-reliant,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

CAAU is a group of Ugandans who pursued graduate studies in different disciplines with funding from the British government\u2019s prestigious Chevening scholarship. The alumni partnered with YARID, which was already involved in empowering urban refugees through diverse interventions to conduct trainings in refugees\u2019 legal and gender rights as well as entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want all refugees to be able to communicate in English because it is the general language in Uganda and they can be able to use these machines in digital skilling,\u201d Mr Sedrick Murhula, the YARID founder and chief executive officer, said.<\/p>\n

Mr Murhula said three in every 10 refugees benefitting from YARID are Ugandans. The onboarding stakeholders\u2019 support will enable the training of 700 refugees by next year.<\/p>\n

Mr Wisdom Karungo, who has been a refugee since 2013 and has benefitted from the Chevening alumni training, said: \u201cWe have benefited a lot about our rights and we can defend ourselves\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Friday conference followed an education round table where keynote speaker Justice Catherine Bamugemereire of the Court of Appeal challenged Chevening alumni \u201cnot to settle for less\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cUse the skills you acquired through the scholarship to become champions of change,\u2019\u2019 she said before commended the alumni for not choosing to remain for \u2018greener pastures\u2019 in the UK.<\/p>\n

Speaking via a video link, British High Commissioner Kate Airey pledged to support the association and advised the alumni to encourage more people to apply for the British government scholarship.<\/p>\n

\u201cStand very strong and I will be there when you need anything, and thank you for what you are doing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

At the March 19 event, Cavendish University Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dr Olive Sabiiti, herself a Chevening alumna, said the planned support to the School of the Handicapped was informed by the necessity to remove barriers that impede PWDs potentials.<\/p>\n

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