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Western Europe’s high-income nations and socially progressive Scandinavian ones offer safety and sustenance to refugees. But for a country that actually welcomes refugees, consider Uganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The small East African country rolls out the welcome mat and hosts more than half a million refugees, the eighth largest number in the world.<\/p>\n

Refugees hail from Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia — longtime hot-spots — as well as Burundi and South Sudan. More than 200,000 South Sudanese have sought safety in Uganda from a 2-and-a-half year civil war, and the number is growing.<\/a><\/p>\n

In Uganda, refugees are integrated into host communities and given land to build on. They receive not just food, but farm supplies so they can grow their own crops.<\/p>\n

“They have all the rights that are attributed to any human being, irrespective of their status as refugees,” Titus Jogo, a government official in Adjumani district of northern Uganda, told the Guardian newspaper.<\/p>\n

It’s counter-intuitive to think that a country where the annual gross domestic product is a mere $696 per person would welcome more mouths to feed. However, a rising tide of development successes like new water projects and markets not only meet refugees’ needs, but they also lift up locals.<\/p>\n

What’s more important, perhaps, is that Uganda’s troubled history includes the brutal, 20-year insurgency of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. At the height of the conflict, nearly 2 million Ugandans fled to protected camps. They haven’t forgotten what it means to need a home.<\/p>\n

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