Improving the mental health of young refugees in Uganda through sport

World Mental Health Day 2020 was a moment to recall the importance of addressing mental health issues at a time when close to 1 billion people live with a mental disorder, and when billions of people around the world have seen their mental wellbeing affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Refugees are among the most vulnerable to the consequences of the pandemic, and mental health conditions amongst people forced from their homes by conflict and war are already two or three times higher than in the general population, with one in five people experiencing mental health challenges. Young refugees live with the daily stress and anxiety of being forcibly displaced, but one thing that can make a real difference to their mental and physical wellbeing is sport.
This fact means that, three years on from its establishment by the IOC, the mission of the Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) is