COBURWAS Club
On December 5, 2005 students at the Kyangwali refugee settlement in western Uganda started their own community and educational club in the camp. The club is called COBURWAS, short for Congo-Burundi-Rwanda-Sudan, a name chosen to represent unity among the different nationalities at the camp.
To join COBURWAS each person must agree to adhere to club rules, participate in club activities, pay a nominal fee, and be approved by COBURWAS members.
Club members act as role models for others in the community. COBURWAS members encourage parents to provide for their children's education; often this involves great and sometimes impossible sacrifices for the families. The club also organizes and supports community projects and programs a few of which include:
- Mentor members of the Kyangwali Women's Microcredit Project
- Assist with the installation and maintenance of the Kyangwali Women's Microcredit MILL Project.
- Programs that promote personal responsibility for self, family, and the community at large
- Programs which provide AIDS education, and promote responsible and safe sex
- Encourage and assist HIV/AIDS community members. Ask community members to assist the very ill. Encourage community acceptance.
- Built a hostel where students live when attending school in Hoima
- Built a daycare for orphans
- Community participation in malaria reduction by removing mosquito infested brush
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