COBURWAS International Youth Organization to Transform Africa, commonly known as CIYOTA is a Ugandan not-for-profit refugee-education organisation.

[1][2] CIYOTA was started by volunteer youth living in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement from Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, and Sudan, including Congolese refugee Benson Wereje, Daniel Muhwezi and Bahati Kanyamanza in December 2005.

[3][4][5] Founders, who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo from Rutchuru, North Kivu Province.

[5] CIYOTA operates a primary school, led by John Bosco Okoboi, within Kyangwali Refugee Settlement and supports students attend high school and university elsewhere in Uganda through the provision of hostel accommodation near to the educational establishments.

[8] In 2018, the Ugandan Ministry of Education ranked the COBURWAS primary school the fourth best in the country.