Where We Work

Amala delivers educational programmes to refugee communities all over the world. Our programmes are delivered directly by Amala teams as well as in collaboration with on the ground partners whose missions are aligned to our own. This way of working has enabled us to run programmes in both urban and camp settings across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Find out more about the different places we work - and partners we have worked with - below.

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Our Locations and Programme Partners

Africa

Kakuma Camp and Kalobeyei Settlement, Kenya

Amala has worked in Kakuma Camp since 2017 and our team there is running the Amala Global Secondary Diploma and UWC Amala Changemaker Foundation Programme. 

We also work with refugee-led community-based organisations in Kakuma camp to run Amala Changemaker Courses:

Faulu Production is a community-based organisation which supports and empowers refugees, disadvantaged youths and women through participatory development and education. Amala and Faulu Production have a common mission - to promote young talents and advocate for access to quality education and lifelong learning. 

URISE for Africa is a refugee run community-based organisation founded in Kakuma Camp. URISE’s vision is to empower youth with transformative and innovative skills that they can use to serve as ambassadors of peace. Amala and URISE have been collaborating to run Amala programmes in Kakuma Camp since November 2017.

In Kalobeyei settlement, located 30km outside Kakuma Camp, we have been working with community-based organisation Kalobeyei Initiative for Better Life to run our Changemaker Courses for displaced youth in the area since January 2021. Kalobeyei Initiative for Better Life is a community-based organisation that provides inspiration, action and development to refugees in Kalobeyei Settlement. 

Kakuma Vocational Centre (KVC) is community-based organisation that aims to equip refugees and the host community with tools to create a better future for all. Amala and KVC have been running Amala courses together since November 2021.

Amala has also partnered with refugee-run organisations, Human Shine Dream, Refugee and Host Resilience Initiative (REHORI) & House of Hope Community to run Amala Changemaker Courses in 2022 in Kakuma camp.

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Kampala and Nakivale Settlement, Uganda

Amala has partnered with United South Sudan Urban Refugees Community (USSURC) to run Amala Changemaker Courses in Kampala, Uganda. Lamuka Innovation Centre in Nakivale Settlement is another Amala partner in Uganda running Changemaker Courses.

Middle East

Amman, Jordan 

Amala has been working in Amman, Jordan, since 2017, when we first started running Changemaker Courses. Our Amala team in Amman has run the Amala Global Secondary Diploma since 2020, and Souriyat Across Borders (SAB) acts as our strategic operating partner in Jordan.

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Previous Locations

We have also previously worked in the following locations, although at present we are not running any programmes:

  • Bekaa Valley, Lebanon - In 2018-2019, Amala collaborated with SOS Children’s Villages’ Education in Emergencies team to run Amala Changemaker Courses for displaced Syrian youth living in the Bekaa Valley.

  • Chios, Greece - Amala collaborated with Action for Education, a volunteer-run NGO on Chios to run Amala Changemaker Courses in 2018. 

  • Thessaloniki, Greece - From 2019 - 2023, Amala worked with Wave Thessaloniki to deliver courses. Our team also ran programmes in collaboration with our strategic partner, Solidarity Now, an organisation founded to help populations most affected by the economic and humanitarian crisis.

  • Athens, Greece - Amala worked in Athens from 2017 - 2023, both through Amala’s Greece Team, and with partners Danish Refugee Council Athens, Medical Intervention (Medin), ECHO HUB Athens and more, to support educators to develop their competentices as facilitators and implement Amala Changemaker Courses for displaced learners in their communities. Read more about this project here.

  • Volos and Kalavryta, Greece - Amala partnered with the Hellenic Red Cross Volos & Kalavryta in 2019.

  • Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh - In 2019, Amala partnered with  Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ) and Brac University to run Amala Changemaker Courses in Cox’s Bazar

  • Hong Kong - Amala partnered with Hong Kong based organisation Branches of Hope to run an Amala Changemaker Course in 2018.

  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Amala partnered with Fugee School to run Amala Changemaker Courses in 2020.

  • Rwamwanja, Uganda - In 2020 Amala partnered with Rwamwanja Youth Innovation Group to run Amala Changemaker Courses in Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement.

  • Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago - Amala collaborated with Living Water Community in 2019 to run courses to Venezuelan refugees & host community youth.

  • Yaounde, Cameroon - In 2020, Amala worked with BRIGHT to run courses to internally displaced persons (IDPs).

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