Jacent in Nakivale

Jacent on her motorbike

Nakivale is a camp where over 63,000 refugees from Rwanda, Ethiopia, Somalia, DR Congo, and Burundi are given resettlement facilities by Uganda and the UN High Commission for Refugees.

Boots and umbrella

Her picture-book bed

Jacent, together with two other Filipinos work on a livelihood project there.  There are other organizations with their volunteers and staff working in the camp.  Jacent was in my batch of volunteers who left Manila for Uganda.  Her first job was teacher-educator under the Special Needs Education program, then later on transferred to the resettlement project.  Her current location is in Isinguro District which is about 6 hours by bus from Kampala.
She is quite fashionable and sticks to her beauty regiment despite the mosquitoes and fleece squatting in her accommodations. 

The camp residents

I am quite amazed at how she moves about in her motorbike.  I caught her on camera crossing a shallow stream, feet off the pedals 

Common kitchen with vols

with the motorbike running at a slow speed.  She could be one of the Hell's Angels doing a stunt. 

Inspecting the project

She even wanted to maul a meat vendor who charged her the price for 5 kilos, but gave her meat weighing 5 pounds.


She is fun to be with and has that infectious laughter.  I know that she cries once in a while, but most of the time, she is just bubbly.

Dodging streams and potholes