People in an alley in Namuwongo

Namuwongo

Namuwongo is an area of Kampala located southeast of the city centre. Here, there is an informal urban settlement that is home to between seven and ten thousand people. Many of these people are internally displaced persons (IDPs) from zones of violence in Uganda or are refugees who fled from neighbouring countries such as DR Congo and Sudan.

In Namuwongo, 90% of households live below the absolute poverty line - the highest percentage of the slums in Kampala. Residents face many problems, such as unemployment, low quality shelter, high crime rates, drug abuse, poor and insufficient infrastructures and low literacy levels.