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Ugandan Transit Camp

Ziada, Neema, Jonathan, Joachim, Mapendo

1,205,913 refugees
in Uganda

Uganda hosts more refugees than any other country in Africa

GDP per capita in the Uganda is $643

GDP per capita in the US is $62,904

"Most refugees and otherwise displaced people remained indefinitely in the locations where they had sought refuge, often living for years in refugee and IDP camps, or running in circles, just as Argentine and Mapendo had already done..." (p. 217)

Photo credit: Andy Wheatley for DFID

Refugees in transit to
Rwamwanja camp

Population of Rwamwanja Camp:
67,543

82% women & children

Global Statistics

70.8 million people are
forcibly displaced globally

85% of refugees are being hosted
in developing countries.

1 in out every 108 people in the world
are forcibly displaced. Ten years ago that number was 1 out of 160

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Photo of IDP camp in Congo                   photo credit: Molly Feltner

photo of IDP camp in Congo by Molly Feltner        

Number of Refugees Resettled in US

Joachim and Jonathan in Ugandan Refugee Camp

US sets a refugee cap of 18,000 for next year -- a new historic low

Washington (CNN)
The Trump administration told Congress it intends to dramatically cut the number of refugees it will admit in the next fiscal year, only up to 18,000 refugees, according to the State Department -- marking a historic low and threatening to further erode the nation's refugee resettlement program.

Under President Donald Trump, the administration has slowly chipped away at the refugee cap, which dictates how many refugees may be admitted to the United States. The ceiling for fiscal year 2019 stands at 30,000, which, at the time, was the lowest level since 1980...

Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees program

"Canada was the first country to implement a refugee sponsorship program of the sort. The Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program allowed community organizations, ethnic groups, families, and others to sponsor refugees coming to Canada,.."

Advantages of the program


What the US can learn

Argentine with Asante Mungu, born in a Catholic hospital in Uganda, surrounded by strangers that chose to welcome a pregnant refugee.



"We stood there as a welcoming committee, strangers even among ourselves. But we were not really strangers. The act of coming together to welcome others had transformed us into a community, as though the intention held some healing power, long before any plane touched down."