🌱From Survivor to Community Builder

My name is Ephreme Lwaboshi, and I was born in the province of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

My parents were farmers, and like many children from my village, I dreamed of completing my studies and helping my community grow.

But everything changed the day soldiers surrounded my school.

There was screaming, gunfire, and chaos.

Some students and teachers were killed.

The school was burned to the ground.

I fled with a small group of classmates.

We walked for three days through the forest, hungry and terrified.

Finally, we encountered a UNHCR bus filled with people fleeing the same violence.

That is how I arrived in Uganda, at the Nakivale Refugee Settlement — where I still live today.

💫 A Cry of Hope Turned into Action

In Nakivale, I quickly understood something:

Safety is not the same as hope.

Children were hungry.

Women struggled without resources.

Young people were lost, traumatized, and hopeless.

I could not remain silent.

In 2024, I founded the Memory of Charity Center — a refugee-led community initiative created to restore dignity, strengthen capacities, and reduce suffering among vulnerable children, women, youth, and families in Nakivale.

In 2025, I published Stop Social Conflicts, an illustrated testimony of refugee life:

📘http://www.maketankinc.org/illustrated-memoirs-nakivale

Today, with a small but dedicated team, we continue building a place of hope through learning, skills, and community support.

🌱 A Place of Hope Through Learning and Skills

The Memory of Charity Center is designed to be a safe and inclusive place where children, youth, women, and vulnerable families can learn, heal, and build a better future together.

Our work currently operates through two main programs:

💛 Hope & Well-being Program

This program combines the Smile Again Program (Ceka Tena) and our Charity Program.

Its goal is to provide emotional support, basic learning opportunities, humanitarian assistance, and social guidance for vulnerable children — including newly arrived refugees, abandoned children, and families facing extreme hardship.

👧✨ Smile Again Program (Ceka Tena)

Many children in Nakivale arrive traumatized by war, displacement, and loss.

Some have no school materials, no stable support system, and no safe place to learn.

Through the Smile Again Program, we provide:

✔️ Temporary non-formal learning activities

✔️ Language learning support for newly arrived refugees

✔️ Educational and social guidance

✔️ Basic skills and creative activities

✔️ Support that helps children rediscover hope, joy, and confidence

✔️ Opportunities for children to learn storytelling and create illustrated books

✔️ Positive engagement that helps prevent risky behavior

This program helps children smile again, learn again, and believe in themselves again.

🤝 Charity Program

Through our Charity Program, we support vulnerable children and families through:

✔️ Basic humanitarian assistance

✔️ Emergency support and relief

✔️ Community solidarity activities for families facing hardship

Our hope is to restore dignity, stability, and belonging to people who often feel forgotten.

🧼 MOSKICARE: A Refugee-Led Solution to Malaria

We also developed MOSKICARE, a liquid mosquito-repellent soap designed to help protect families from malaria while creating opportunities for refugee-led production and local employment.

This project has strong potential to grow, but we still lack many of the basic tools, ingredients, and production materials needed to expand.

🌱 Learning & Skills Program

This program combines the Tunaweza Program and Nature’s Heart Academy.

Its goal is to help youth and women gain practical skills, confidence, and opportunities for economic independence.

Priority is especially given to women and vulnerable youth.

🧵 Tunaweza Program

Through the Tunaweza Program, we focus on:

✔️ Practical skills and trade training

✔️ Small income-generating activities

✔️ Entrepreneurship learning

✔️ Empowerment of women and vulnerable youth

✔️ Skills development that can create long-term livelihoods

🌱 Nature’s Heart Academy

Nature’s Heart Academy focuses on:

✔️ Hands-on learning and practical education

✔️ Life skills and environmental awareness

✔️ Positive values and community responsibility

✔️ Learning through creativity and real community experience

📘 Building a Community Education Center

The Memory of Charity Center is now working toward building a simple Community Education Center in New Goma, Nakivale.This space will include:

🏫 2 classrooms

🚻 Basic latrines

📚 Learning materials and educational support

🌱 Space for community learning, skills training, and children’s activities

The center will support programs such as:

• Smile Again (Ceka Tena)

• Tunaweza Program

• Nature’s Heart Academy

• Charity & Solidarity activities

For many vulnerable children and families, this would become the first stable and safe learning environment available to them.

The estimated budget is $5,000, covering:

✔️ Construction materials

✔️ Furniture

✔️ Learning supplies

✔️ Farming and activity tools

✔️ Local labor and basic setup

💛 How Your Donation Helps

Every contribution — large or small — directly supports:

✔️ Educational materials for children

✔️ Food, refreshments, and hygiene support during activities

✔️ Skills training for women and youth

✔️ MOSKICARE production materials

✔️ Volunteer transport support

✔️ Community outreach and humanitarian support

✔️ Construction of the future education center

Your support goes directly toward refugee-led community work inside Nakivale Refugee Settlement.

🙏 Be Part of This Story

Even in exile, hope can grow.

The Memory of Charity Center is a place where learning and skills can transform lives.

Together, we can help vulnerable children smile again, empower women and youth with practical skills, and create a safer future for refugee families.

Many small acts of love can build a brighter world.

💚 Donate Today

Your kindness reaches people whom the world has forgotten — but who still believe in hope.

— Ephreme Lwaboshi

Founder, Memory of Charity Center

Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda

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