Uganda: Both a refugee and nurse, Bosco focuses on healing
NAKIVALE, Uganda - Bosco Niyonkuru, a refugee from Burundi, is making it his life mission to nurse patients at Nakivale hospital in Uganda back to health. It is a feat he takes on despite his own battle with cancer.
“Saving lives is a huge responsibility,” he says. “This is what I always wanted to do and I wouldn’t change my job for anything.”
Nakivale health centre is one of 70 in Uganda that provides services to both refugees and locals, the outcome of a national “integrated service delivery” programme. Through steady funding, the facility has grown in size and capacity over the years, keeping pace with the increasing refugee population. Today, it serves more than 120,000 refugees and 40,000 Ugandans.
![Burundi. Finally home: A former refugee’s journey to starting life afresh, two years after returning to her home country Burundi](/africa/sites/afr/files/RF1312817.jpg "Emelyne Kabura is among former Burundian refugees who have returned to Burundi and have been supported to start a fresh. The mother of three fled Burundi in Burundi in 2015 due to political instability and violence. She was only 18 years old and in grade 8. Like in many refugee camps across the continent, life in the Mtendeli refugee camp in north-western Tanzania, was challenging, especially as she had just gotten married and was starting her family. "We had limited freedom in the camp. I couldn't continue my education or set up any business," she says.But support from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the Government of Burundi, together with partners, has enabled Emelyne’ and her family to start life afresh. With the cash grant she received from UNHCR, in addition to a shelter kit comprising iron sheets and other building materials, Emelyne bought a small piece of land which she build her family’s house on and with the remaining cash, she started keeping rabbits, leased a piece of land to grow cas")
