🎉Celebrating 1 year at Every Shelter
Exactly one year ago on this day, I started work and Every Shelter, and it has been an eventful year filled with #growth. The work culture encourages growth and exploration, especially with the reminders that "no idea is a stupid idea." I`ve had the liberty to share my thoughts on projects, and pilots, and to contribute in every little way that I can. Every Shelter is invested in building the capacity of its staff, and it would be a lie, if I said that I haven`t grown over the months, due to the resources, and agency given to make work possible.
📌 Over the past year, I`ve gained clarity in many aspects of my past, present, and future some of which I`d like to share.
1. Many decades ago, my parents moved to Uganda as refugees. I was born a national, years after they had found grounding and established a life for themselves. They were able to build a #home, away from the home they once knew, a place that to us, their children, was the only home we knew. But in the settlements, many #displaced people are waiting for peace to return to their countries so that they can go #back #home. The conditions that they live in are heartbreaking, considering that once owned lands, and livestock, a good life before conflict or disaster took them away, and the #displacement they live in can drag for up to 20 years! This co-relation gives meaning to my ambition as a #humanitarian and the work that I do with Every Shelter, an organization that is dedicated to its work "Until Every Refugee Creates Home."
2. Having done my bachelor's degree in Human Rights, Peace and Humanitarian Interventions, I had many options on what to do at the point of furthering my education. I had possibilities like an MA #Development #Studies, International Relations, #Public #Policy, and a few other options here and there. Although they are all great and relevant in getting the knowledge I need for the impact I desire to make in my career walk and service, I have found a clearer direction of my near-term goals when it comes to my academic pursuit, which is in line with #crisis and #humanitarian #emergencies. I have also had the opportunity to be enrolled on the Stanford Design School for a course in Design for Social Impact, as a courtesy of the organization, and the knowledge I am acquiring and the skill set I am building from this course is and will be very instrumental in my contribution to the innovative work that we do to serve refugees in #Bidibidi and #Nakivale Refugee settlements.
Overall, I am grateful to the team I have gotten to work with, learn from, walk with and, engage with, in the goal of realizing Every Shelter`s mission and vision.
#Humanitarianism
#Development
#Refugees
