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It is with concern that it has been noted that the excitement and optimism of South Africa in the 1990s have not been realised. References have been made in the media of ‘South Africa, the failed state’ (RSG, 8 August 2022). The Nelson Mandela, ‘Madiba magic’ has evaporated. After centuries of struggle against colonialism, racism...

Authors: * Ronald Bahati, Herbert Elvis Ainamani, Scholastic Ashaba, Cathy Denise Sigmund, and Godfrey Zari Rukundo Introduction: Social support has been documented as playing an important and positive role in the health and well-being of refugees right from escape from their country of origin to their final new settlement. It is a personal resource that...

Introduction This abstract concerns a study on how to build Resilience and Protection of Children, Adolescents and Youth living in Refugee Camps of Kigeme and Mugombwa. Methodology This study was both qualitative and quantitative. 384 people including were sampled for the study. The questions for this research were: What is trauma status in Refugee camps,...

From decades of internalized ethnic hatred until the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, Rwanda citizens have known series of wars, institutionalized ethnic harassment, arrests, slaughters on one hand; and exiles and refugees mostly on the African continent on the other hand. As a result, all Rwandan systems were decimated by the 1994 genocide against Tutsi including...

This paper presents Global WELLs of Refuge, an initiative that addresses health and human service inequities within ethnic minoritized, refugee, and immigrant groups through intracultural and intercultural wellness education, training, and community-based leadership. As every community needs a well, or water source, WELLs of Refuge highlight the crucial role of ethnic community leaders, churches, community...

Globally, the number of refugees suffering from war trauma continues to grow, leaving many civilians in a vulnerable state of health and social economic conditions that propel them to fight back. Although forced migration has been earmarked as a global public health concern, the phenomena’s correlation with the “cycle of violence” has not been extensively...