This project supported by Byelo financed activities of monitoring and formation in order to improve life conditions of the slum dwellers and to incentivize the research for new solutions of work and housing. Sister Fernanda Pellizzer, Combonian Sister, director of the ‘John Paul II Justice and Peace Centre’, living since more than 30 years in Uganda, coordinated all details of the project, monitoring life conditions in the area in order to develop a network which engages the slum dwellers as well as private and governmental stakeholders which already operate in the area.

• Residential workshop for social workers and stakeholders.
• Monthly seminaries and workshops for the Governmental Police for a different approach to slum dwellers and their problems.
• Courses for illiterates.
• Sponsoring slum dwellers’ children to get education.
• Provide ‘Return Home Kits” for slum dwellers that were forced out of their homes by war or natural calamities.
• Attract government support though excellent testimony.

An international organization had left Northern Uganda, as did many after the end of the civil war, leaving however, many issues without solutions. A group of young orphan girls had obtained admission to the prestigious School of Nursing and Midwifery at Lacor Hospital. Byelo became their new sponsor. They all realized their dream, meanwhile all of them did find a good job in various hospitals of the country.

Byelo built a vocational school of craftsmanship for ‘drop out’ boys and girls who for various reasons had no chance to attend a school. This centre was planned not only to provide professional training, but also to offer a workshop of living and sharing. The construction itself had partly be realized by groups of boys who thereby were initiated to construction work as well as to the skills of blacksmithing and carpentry. Now the project has been handed over to the Diocese of Gulu.