Climate change is unfolding. Floods, wildfires, landslides and droughts are taking a heavier toll every year. A huge amount of people are losing their livelihoods, their homes, and their sense of security. These impacts make us rethink design, solidarity and the distribution of resources on a global scale.
In East African countries, such as Uganda, those questions are urgent. Extreme rainfall, driven by El Niño and intensified by decades of global warming, is devastating entire regions. Infrastructure fails. Harvests disappear. Communities that were already living with very little are left with even less.
Those with the fewest resources are hit hardest because their capacity to adapt is limited.
Soil is increasingly sealed. Drainage systems are fragile. Each extreme rainstorm overwhelms the city.
Heavy congestion pushes low-income families toward central wetlands, where work is more accessible and land remains affordable, but living conditions are becoming increasingly harsh.
The city's topography deepens this divide. Expansive hills remain dry and safe, while valleys channel water and waste directly into dense, low-income neighbourhoods, spreading disease.
Every heavy rainfall threatens livelihoods and health. What was once exceptional has become routine.
And it is almost nowhere as visible as in Bwaise.