Even though he was a successful farmer back home in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the last thing Salim Saliman expected to find as a refugee in neighbouring Uganda was economic prosperity. Today, though, thanks to his and his wife’s hard work and some help from UNHCR and its partners, he is an economic success story – a poster boy for the Self Reliance Strategy pioneered by the Ugandan government and the UN refugee agency.