South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda’s Bidi Bidi camp are calling on the UN refugee agency to build more schools to accommodate their children.
James Ladu, a local chief in the camp told Radio Tamazuj that more than 500 children are not able to go to school due to shortage of schools saying the only school is overcrowded.
Separately, Ladu said the Danish Refugee Council, one of the aid organisations supporting agriculture in the camps is now giving farmers’ money instead of agricultural tools yet the prices of these tools are very high in the local markets.
“The new plan doesn’t help the refugees because the prices are now high in the market” he explains.
Ladu says that the money given cannot but farm tools as they are expensive.