The cutting edge of early education in Kyaka II refugee settlement
Kyaka II refugee settlement in western Uganda is home to 121,000 refugees, mostly from the Democratic Republic of Congo, 54% of whom are under 17 years old. HYT, in partnership with Children on the Edge, is excited to be involved in a pioneering, community led, Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme with a focus on long […]
Working through the lockdown
Uganda, like the rest of the world, ground to a halt in late March. Although most industries were forced to close their doors, construction and training was allowed to continue, with HYT ensuring our teams were able to live and work safely. Despite all the uncertainty and fear early in the pandemic, HYT’s team at […]
Sustainably constructed homes to support child headed families.
HYT have been working in the area Ngora to build huts using the ISSB bricks for child headed families. A child headed family is where the children have been orphaned and a child becomes the main income earner for the family. HYT started this program with Edith’s Home in November 2019 and since then have […]
Cisco’s story.
Training to be a builder and helping construct two innovation centres and four trading kiosks in Uganda’s – and Africa’s – largest refugee settlement, Bidi Bidi, was Cisco’s first proper job since he fled his home in South Sudan in September 2016. Until the environmentally-friendly construction and training programme started last May, led by award […]
Why Uganda
Why did I choose it for my Gap Year? I was originally unsure as to whether I would even take a gap year as I believed I would simply head straight to university from school. However, arriving Haileybury in lower 6th meant that I had never heard of HYT. I first heard of it in […]
2020 Greetings from HYT
We are pleased to send 2020 Greetings from our teams in Uganda and the UK, thanking you for your wonderful support. We also hope that this year is as successful for HYT as last year was. We thought you would like to see some highlights, starting with how HYT is meeting the UN’s Sustainable […]
HYT celebrates its first training and construction in Uganda’s largest Refugee settlement.
HYT training giants Philip Yiga, Fred Koire, Mathias Kabaala and their team of trusted assistants have successfully pulled off one of HYT’s most ambitious projects to date. The team have worked miles from home, far from friends and family, in Uganda’s largest refugee settlement. As an organisation we could not be more grateful for the […]
ISSB Excels in Strength Tests
HYT is well underway with our training project in the world’s second largest refugee settlement, Bidi Bidi. A total of 18 South Sudanese and 10 Ugandan youths are undergoing intensive training thanks to an ongoing partnership with Mercy Corps. Planning Permission In Uganda’s extreme north an environmental crisis is following its ongoing humanitarian counterpart. Trees […]
Water we doing?
In 2018 HYT built 33 ISSB water tanks in schools across Uganda, with a total capacity of 650,000 litres. Access to stored rainwater increase the time students spend learning in the classroom, by removing the need to fetch water from boreholes – an endeavour involving heavy jerrycans and multiple kilometre journeys. Plastic water tanks Most […]
An Eye Opening Visit to the World’s Second Largest Refugee Settlement: Bidi Bidi
HYT has taken the exciting first steps West of the Nile to work in the world’s second largest refugee settlement: Bidi Bidi. The settlement is home to 750,000 South Sudanese refugees making it Uganda’s, unofficial, second largest city. Yumbe Town, an NGO Epicentre Yumbe town, previously a small, rural trading centre is now a hive […]