Tag: agency
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What If We Stopped Asking What Refugees Need, and Started Asking What They Could Build?
I didn’t expect to be caught off guard by chickens. Yet standing at TuVi Poultry house in Rwamwanja refugee settlement recently, in South Western Uganda, I found myself staring at 2,500 restless birds and realising that the way I had been thinking about humanitarian aid might be wrong. For years, I have worked around refugee…
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As a Refugee, I Thought I Had Seen It All Until I Reached Dzaleka Camp in Malawi
Some trips give you photographs. Others give you a story to tell for the rest of your life. My recent trip to Malawi did both, but more than anything, it touched my heart. It reminded me that there are still places in this world full of good people who hold on to their culture, their…
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What If We Told You…
Over the past few months, I have spent time interviewing refugee leaders across East Africa for Cohere’s What If We Told You… campaign. In many ways, these discussions have not been the beginning of something new, but a continuation of a much longer conversation. The culmination of years of listening, reflecting, and debating internally as…