We Help Communities
Tell Their Own Stories
Voice of Refugee Media (VORM) is a refugee-led creative media and digital innovation initiative using storytelling, technology, and multimedia to amplify refugee and host-community voices.
How We Started
"We started with a drama group, a borrowed phone, and a desire to be heard."
Voice of Refugee Media (VORM) began as a community drama group created by young people, for young people, in Kampala. We used theatre, poetry, writing, and performance to express ourselves and respond to the issues affecting our community.
In 2022, we started making short skits using a borrowed phone. What began as a simple way of telling stories opened our eyes to a bigger reality: many refugee and marginalized young people had stories, ideas, and talent, but lacked the tools, skills, platforms, and opportunities to bring them to life.
That realization became the beginning of VORM.
From Borrowed Phones to Community Impact
Driven By Community & Impact
We intend to bridge the gap between displaced communities and decision-makers. By combining storytelling with digital capabilities, we build local ownership so young people can shape their own stories and futures.
What We Do
To amplify refugee and host-community voices by providing young people with the skills, platforms, and creative spaces to tell stories, develop solutions, and contribute to positive social change.
Where We Are Headed
A world where refugee voices are impossible to ignore, dignified, and directly inform the decisions that affect their lives and communities.
Our Core Values
We operate through a modular, community-driven framework designed to ensure narrative dignity, information integrity, and sustainable capabilities across all our initiatives.
Community First
We listen to and work with communities, not simply for them.
Voice & Participation
We believe people affected by an issue should have a meaningful role in shaping the conversation.
Creativity
We use storytelling, media and technology to find new ways of communicating and solving problems.
Integrity
We value facts, responsible storytelling and information that communities can trust.
Inclusion
We create space for different identities, experiences and perspectives.
Learning
We believe growth comes through curiosity, practice, collaboration and sharing knowledge.
Action
We turn stories and ideas into opportunities for dialogue, participation and change.
How We Work
VORM organizes its work around three strategic hubs:
Storytelling
We capture and share authentic community stories to inspire empathy, dialogue and action.
Digital Innovation
We equip young people with digital, technology and AI skills to create solutions and expand opportunities.
Multimedia
We produce film, television, photography, audio and digital content that informs, influences and creates change.
Our Journey
What began as a community-driven response to the need for refugee voices to be heard has grown into a platform for creative expression, digital learning and community media.
Through its programmes, media productions, training spaces and partnerships, VORM continues to create opportunities for young people to move from being audiences of stories to creators of stories, ideas and solutions.
BEYOND BEING AUDIENCE
For too long, stories about displaced communities have been told by outsiders. VORM shifts the balance by equipping local youth with multimedia equipment, digital literacy, and ethical journalism tools to own their narrative.
“When a young person picks up a camera or writes a story about their own neighborhood, it changes everything. They cease to be passive subjects of someone else’s report; they become the historians, journalists, and leaders of their own future.”
Levis Chidodo
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Our People
VORM is driven by an interdisciplinary team combining lived experience and technical expertise across media production, digital innovation, communications, and community engagement.
Levis Chidolo
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Joel Muganguzi
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Jovia Nalubega
Admin & Finance Lead
Dr. Emma Imaniriho
Communications & Marketing Lead
Honorine Ndayishimiye
Social Media & Newsroom Lead
Jolly Fulerha
English Trainer
Elga Simeon Sage
English Trainer
Samuel Irenge
IT & Systems Lead
Kato
Multimedia Lead & Studio Tech
Amos Adralia
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Become a part of the change
Join us in building a sustainable, refugee-led media and innovation platform. Your support powers digital skills training, creative storytelling, and verified community news that drives real change.
