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The Donum Nakivale campus: land, roads and security Every place we plan for Nakivale needs land, roads, drains, a fence and security, close to enough people to justify it: at least 20,000 within 5 km. Land inside the settlement cannot be owned, so we look first for titled land next to it, in the host community.

Donum Partner Platform: a free tool for refugee-led organisations Refugee-led organisations know who is one step away from something, but most have no safe way to record a need, prove a gift arrived and follow up. Without that, many donors do not fund them.

Donum Nakivale Power and Water: solar power for the campus and the trading centre In Nakivale, 2.6% of households use the national grid for light (npj Climate Action, 2025). A health centre, a school and workshops cannot run without reliable power, and the trees for firewood are gone.

Donum Nakivale Health Centre: births, newborns and oxygen By January 2026 only 6% of the money needed for refugee health and nutrition in Uganda that year had been secured (International Rescue Committee, 26 January 2026). Births, newborn care and oxygen are where care saves the most lives.

Donum Nakivale Technical Secondary School: 960 places Only 11% to 12.1% of refugee young people in Uganda are in secondary school (Finn Church Aid Uganda, 26 March 2026). Children finish primary at about 13, too young to work, and distance, fees, hunger and safety end most of their schooling there.

Donum Nakivale Training Farm and Workshops: 1,000 graduates a year Refugees in Uganda may work and are given land to farm, but many have no way to learn a trade they could live from, and the training near Nakivale does not meet the need. Most of what is offered also needs English.

Donum Centre: 1,000 free computers near Makerere University In 2021, 2.7% of households in Uganda had a computer (World Bank, 2021). In a survey of Makerere students, 93% named the cost of internet as a barrier to learning online, 84% poor connections and 56% electricity (Olum and others, 2020).

Donum Student Laptop Draw: a new laptop for a university student, every month In 2022, 2.5% of households in Uganda owned a working laptop and 94% had no internet at home (NITA-U, 2022). A new laptop costs about eight months of what an average household spends (UBOS, 2023/24).

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