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Up With Africa · Our Work

What we actually do.

Three pillars working together to unlock the potential of refugees and low-income communities — education, tech employment, and sport-for-development. The full record is below, plus a gallery from the field.

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What we do

Three pillars, one purpose.

Education, tech employment, and sport-for-development. Each pillar reinforces the others — and each one is anchored in what refugee communities have told us they actually need.

Refugee children in a UWA-supported education program
01 — Education

Right to education is a right.

Up With Africa is committed to ensuring that refugee children are never deprived of their right to education. Education provides stability, regularity, and hope — and equips young people with the skills to meet whatever future they walk into.

For refugees, learning fosters integration into new communities and supports the rebuilding of societies affected by war and violence. Education is not a luxury. It is a fundamental right enshrined in international law and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Where it happens

Kampala · Nakivale · partner schools

Refugee learning computer skills in a UWA training session
02 — Tech Employment

Digital skill is the future.

Digital employment offers refugees and low-income communities meaningful work in the fast-growing tech sector. Through our programs, we train participants in essential computer skills — from basic productivity tools to programming and data work.

These skills enhance career opportunities and empower refugees to achieve economic independence — and to actively contribute to their community's economy, not depend on it.

Pathways covered

Frontend · Data entry · Content moderation · Design

Youth participating in a sport-for-development session
03 — Sport for Development

Play heals.

Sport and games provide more than physical activity. They are powerful tools for healing and growth. Play heals by reducing stress, building resilience, and strengthening physical and mental well-being.

In refugee and low-income communities, sport unites people across cultures, promotes inclusion, and inspires peace — proving that play is essential to human dignity.

Anchored in

Coaching · Mental health · Youth leadership

Our goal

Unlock the abilities and potential of refugees and low-income people through a long-term solution of advanced learning, leadership, and entrepreneurship — to create positive change.

Be part of the change

Join the work.

Every program above is built and sustained by people. Volunteers, partners, donors, mentors, coaches — there is room for many kinds of help, and we make sure the help reaches a real person within weeks.

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