UbuntuAid,an interactive Multilingual Multi-Channel Platform (Web, SMS, Calls) bridging the essential gap in legal knowledge and representation for refugees and migrant communities, facilitating their seamless integration and socioeconomic empowerment. The platform, available in Arabic, English, French, and Kiswahili, offers users access to critical services and information from anywhere, ensuring inclusivity and connectivity.
Through UbuntuAid, refugees can engage with comprehensive legal empowerment programs tailored to their specific needs. The platform delivers accessible legal education, guidance, and resources in multiple languages, enhancing refugees' understanding of rights, obligations, and available legal pathways.
UbuntuAid collaborates with legal professionals to provide refugees access to pro bono legal services. Via the platform, users can connect with legal experts who offer free or low-cost representation, addressing diverse legal needs and ensuring refugees can assert their rights effectively.
By integrating legal orientation and support services within the platform, UbuntuAid equips refugees with the necessary legal knowledge and representation to navigate crucial aspects of integration such as employment, education, healthcare, housing, and community engagement effectively.
UbuntuAid serves as a platform for launching advocacy campaigns to raise awareness about the legal challenges faced by refugees. Through targeted efforts, the platform can advocate for policy reforms that enhance access to legal representation and strengthen legal rights and protections for refugees and migrant communities.
In a region confronted by over 6.3 million refugees (UNHCR report 2019) with Uganda as the highest refugee host in Africa due to the levels of conflicts and displacements, and with the need for humanitarian aid exceeding available funding, a new way of working with refugees/displaced persons and their migrant communities is a necessity if we are to prepare them for a life beyond “from hand to mouth syndrome” which about 95% of humanitarian aid is all about.
UbuntuAid-Application comes with a full featured [Command Line Interface] (CLI) which lets you scaffold and manage the project in seconds.
After cloning this project on your desired loaction on the local server,
npm install
# or
yarn install
to install all the dependencies required to run the application smoothly
Start the application;
npm run dev
# or
yarn dev