Uganda, April 2022
Add to Cart Add to Lightbox Download1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Nursery worker Makel Chol Deng undertakes weeding in a bed of teak seeds sown at a tree nursery in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement. A 43-year-old farmer from Jonglei, South Sudanese refugee Makel Chol Deng supports an LWF project producing more than 150,000 tree seedlings on an annual basis. “When I arrived here, the environment here was nothing like this. Now we are planting trees, and it shows the importance of taking care of our environment,” he says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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![1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Nursery worker Makel Chol Deng undertakes weeding in a bed of teak seeds sown at a tree nursery in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement. A 43-year-old farmer from Jonglei, South Sudanese refugee Makel Chol Deng supports an LWF project producing more than 150,000 tree seedlings on an annual basis. “When I arrived here, the environment here was nothing like this. Now we are planting trees, and it shows the importance of taking care of our environment,” he says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]](https://archive.lifeonearthpictures.com/img-get2/I0000x8NRsGfBGeY/fit=1000x750/Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220401-AH2-3697.jpg)
