Salam Music Program

Bidibidi refugee settlement, Uganda

200 students

12 staff

Since 2020

The Salam Music Program is located in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in Northern Uganda, which is the largest refugee camp in Africa. Playing For Change Foundation has partnered with local NGO Sina Loketa to bring access to music and arts education to the youth of the settlement. In 2021, we initiated musical activities for about 60 youth by hiring a music teacher ( vocals, guitar, keyboard ) and a traditional dance teacher.

Sina Loketa is a refugee led Ugandan NGO dedicated through strengthening capacities of young people from the refugee and host communities to become self-reliant and develop social enterprises.

Through this partnership PFCF and Sina Loketa have been implementing a unique music program in the settlement and have been working on other areas such as sustainable agro farming, PSEA training workshops and community events.

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Life in the community

The Bidi Bidi Refugee settlement, in Northern Uganda, is the largest refugee camp in Africa and was the largest refugee camp in the world until the Rohingya crisis in 2018. Bidi Bidi has quickly become the newest city in the world, now hosting almost 300,000 inhabitants after being created only in 2016. The vast majority of refugees are South Sudanese who have fled the ongoing civil conflict. Others come from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and Somalia. Most of the population in Bidi Bidi are children under the age of 18, with limited or no access to education, cultural activities, job opportunities, or the internet.

Traditional music

120 musicians engaged regularly

Recording studio

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Icon 1 Unity in BidiBidi

Watch this uplifting performance by the female-led United Adungu traditional band in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in northern Uganda at the Salam Music Program. Singing ‘Unity! Unity!’, this song is about women, mothers, and girls having to flee civil conflict

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VIDEOS

watch this program in action
  • Unity in Bidibidi
  • MEET WITH BONIFACE
  • Education is the Key
  • Welcome to the Salam Music program in Uganda
  • Sina Loketa Agrofarm, Uganda
  • Meet with Sylvain, executive director of our new program in...
  • Meet with Victor, Music teacher at the Salam Music program...
  • First recordings at the new Art Center built by our...
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