Gwyneth Jones | Dignity and Empowerment for Refugees: Fiston Muganda, UNIDOS Social Centre. The Story Anew #20 @gwynethjones8292 | Uploaded December 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Fiston experienced poverty, vulnerability, and perpetual hunger from a young age. At the age of 11, his family fled the conflict and were labelled 'refugees'. The label stuck with Fiston and shaped his personality and outlook on life. Seven years ago, after deciding to escape DRC and head into Uganda, he was captured by rebel groups and forced to join militia. He eventually managed to escape, and lived on the streets for some time. It was here that he first felt supported and a sense of community, and thanks to having taught himself English over the years from online videos, he began teaching English for a small allowance.
He has since found himself in Nakivale Refugee Resettlement camp, Uganda, where life continues to offer seemingly unending challenges and hardships. But Fiston has found strength and motivation in helping those around him, and he hopes to be able to continue to put his life in the service of helping others in his communities and acting for the greater good in Uganda, the DRC and more widely Africa as a whole. He dreams of being able to study Psychology so that he can return back to his homeland with new perspectives and tools to be part of its healing.
He is the CEO of Unidos Social Innovation Centre (facebook.com/Projectunidos), a centre that builds capacity and engages marginalized, at-risk youth, and transforms them into change makers who drive regional sustainable development and peace. He is also a researcher and Warm Data Lab host and founder of Yatima Home Orphanage (facebook.com/yatimahomeorphanage)
The Story Anew is a podcast and video series in which we'll meet amazing people from all over the world who are working to redefine the dominant narrative of our times - that of infinite growth and consumption. These are the people working towards what Joanna Macy calls The Great Turning - the shifting of our Industrial Growth Society, which prioritises infinite growth over life - to a Life Sustaining Society.
The people you'll meet are working in regeneration, activism, systems design, permaculture, trauma healing, decolonisation, climate change and generally working to fundamentally change the way we do things as a species so that we can live on this planet more harmoniously with our fellow beings and become good ancestors.
Hosted by Gwyneth Jones (www.gwynethjones.coach)
Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Fiston experienced poverty, vulnerability, and perpetual hunger from a young age. At the age of 11, his family fled the conflict and were labelled 'refugees'. The label stuck with Fiston and shaped his personality and outlook on life. Seven years ago, after deciding to escape DRC and head into Uganda, he was captured by rebel groups and forced to join militia. He eventually managed to escape, and lived on the streets for some time. It was here that he first felt supported and a sense of community, and thanks to having taught himself English over the years from online videos, he began teaching English for a small allowance.
He has since found himself in Nakivale Refugee Resettlement camp, Uganda, where life continues to offer seemingly unending challenges and hardships. But Fiston has found strength and motivation in helping those around him, and he hopes to be able to continue to put his life in the service of helping others in his communities and acting for the greater good in Uganda, the DRC and more widely Africa as a whole. He dreams of being able to study Psychology so that he can return back to his homeland with new perspectives and tools to be part of its healing.
He is the CEO of Unidos Social Innovation Centre (facebook.com/Projectunidos), a centre that builds capacity and engages marginalized, at-risk youth, and transforms them into change makers who drive regional sustainable development and peace. He is also a researcher and Warm Data Lab host and founder of Yatima Home Orphanage (facebook.com/yatimahomeorphanage)
The Story Anew is a podcast and video series in which we'll meet amazing people from all over the world who are working to redefine the dominant narrative of our times - that of infinite growth and consumption. These are the people working towards what Joanna Macy calls The Great Turning - the shifting of our Industrial Growth Society, which prioritises infinite growth over life - to a Life Sustaining Society.
The people you'll meet are working in regeneration, activism, systems design, permaculture, trauma healing, decolonisation, climate change and generally working to fundamentally change the way we do things as a species so that we can live on this planet more harmoniously with our fellow beings and become good ancestors.
Hosted by Gwyneth Jones (www.gwynethjones.coach)
