On 10 October, Dr Bianca Fadel was invited as a guest speaker in the webinar series “The Common Good – Creating a Sustainable Future through Volunteering” convened by the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE).

For World Refugee Day 2023, the RYVU project showcased the project’s exhibition with a public talk at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England. This year’s international theme was ‘hope away from home’, and RYVU activities on World Refugee Day also contributed to National Refugee Week in the UK.

From 19 June to 4 July 2023, the RYVU Photo Exhibition ‘Volunteering, Displacement and Livelihoods, Photographs by Young Refugees in Uganda’ will be displayed in Loughborough, UK as part of the Refugee Week 2023. Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, resilience and creativity of refugees and asylum seekers, encompassing hundreds of activities across the globe and in the UK.

On 10 May, Dr Bianca Fadel was invited as a guest speaker to join the Community of Policy Practice series of online conversations as part of the Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE) Project.

The RYVU project is taking part in the 2023 “Express Yourself: North East Festival of Languages”, an opportunity to celebrate diverse languages and cultures and the connections of the North East of England to the world through a range of online and in-person events and activities.

The RYVU project is celebrating this International Volunteer Day with the launch of a series of policy briefings and interactive games in Arabic, English, French and Swahili, providing tools and recommendations from the research findings for improving volunteer policy and practice amongst refugee communities.

RYVU activities and the photo exhibit “Volunteering, Displacement & Livelihoods: Photographs by Young Refugees in Uganda” were the subject of a television report in the local channel Tyne & Wear TV.

The RYVU team was pleased to host the photo exhibit “Volunteering, Displacement & Livelihoods: Photographs by Young Refugees in Uganda” at Northumbria University’s Gallery North, in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Between 20th June and 29th July 2022, the exhibit was visited by nearly 500 people, including community members, university students and staff, and NGO stakeholders from refugee organisations in the Newcastle.

This year, the RYVU project celebrated the World Refugee Day across borders, with simultaneous activities happening in Kampala and the Nakivale refugee settlement, in Uganda; and Newcastle upon Tyne, in the UK. In total, the dissemination activities were attended by more than 800 people, celebrating refugees’ strength and courage while disseminating learning from the RYVU project.

We are delighted to share this update about our photo exhibit in Uganda, as a result of the project’s participatory photography methodology (see also this RYVU Snapshot about the work). The exhibit presents photos that were chosen by the young refugee photographers themselves, who are also active volunteers in their communities…

Participatory photography, or photovoice, has been at the centre of RYVU’s work in Uganda over the past few months. This is an exciting part of the project’s methodology which required the development of particular tools and strategies to engage with refugee youth in participatory and creative ways…

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The RYVU team would like to kindly invite employers and recruiters in Uganda to answer our short online survey on perceptions of volunteering, skills and work. This will allow the experience of employers and recruiters to be also part of RYVU research and advance our understandings on the themes from the perspectives of a wide range of stakeholders…

As a follow up to the discussions during the UNESCO Chair on Lifelong Learning, Youth and Work, Gulu University Conference in April, the Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (RYVU) team is now hosting a webinar on the theme: Volunteering, skills development and employability: reversing the narrative?…

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Following successful visits to BidiBidi and Rwamwanja to consult our youth advisory boards on how best to restart the work, Robert and Moses have been finalising preparations, including procuring additional transport…

Due to the spread of Covid-19, we have temporarily paused fieldwork and all face to face meetings for RYVU in both Uganda and the UK to ensure the safety of both project staff and research participants. However…

Click here to download the first newsletter of the RYVU project with the latest updates from February 2020.

Professor Matt Baillie Smith, from the Northumbria Centre for International Development, will lead a new ESRC/GCRF research project with colleagues from the UK and Uganda over the next two years. Prof. Baillie Smith will be the Principal Investigator on the international project “Skills acquisition and employability through volunteering by displaced youth in Uganda” (total grant value £862,003).