HYT has undertaken an exciting new venture in the world’s second largest refugee settlement. During our 2019 partnership with Mercy Corps it became clear there was a huge need to increase water access and security. Despite the area receiving 9 months of heavy rain a year, residents struggle for
By Will Brett
We begin with the Trust’s recent project in Africa’s largest refugee camp, Bidi Bidi, northern Uganda. Until a few years ago, Bidi Bidi was an empty tract of land in northern Uganda, occupied only by a few scattered villages, whose people eked out a meagre living in the swathes
By Will Brett
In 2018 HYT built 33 ISSB water tanks in schools across Uganda, with a total capacity of 650,000 litres. Access to stored rainwater increase the time students spend learning in the classroom, by removing the need to fetch water from boreholes – an endeavour involving heavy jerrycans and multiple
By Will Brett
HYT has taken the exciting first steps West of the Nile to work in the world’s second largest refugee settlement: Bidi Bidi. The settlement is home to 750,000 South Sudanese refugees making it Uganda’s, unofficial, second largest city. Yumbe Town, an NGO Epicentre Yumbe town, previously a small, rural
By Will Brett
