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Home » Projects » Uganda

Uganda

Our projects in Uganda are in Agago District – a remote and neglected corner in the north east of the country, which was the battleground of a sustained and brutal conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan army (the UPDF) for more than twenty years.  The LRA killed and terrorised thousands of civilians, and abducted at least 30,000 children, forcing them to be soldiers, porters and sex slaves.  Some 1.7 million internally displaced people16 (IDPs) were herded into squalid and over-crowded IDP camps, ostensibly for their own safety, yet without any infrastructure, adequate protection or sanitation, leaving them vulnerable to abuse from both the LRA and the UPDF, and prone to sickness and starvation. Once traditionally successful farming communities, their society was tested to breaking point.  Proud farmers who were no longer able to access their land, lost their wealth and social status, and lived on hand-outs for years; children who returned from abduction and war were unrecognisable to their mothers; a generation of youth only knew life in an IDP camp; the elderly saw their strong, family-based community disintegrate before their eyes. The stress of war and living in overcrowded IDP camps has destroyed the fabric of society. Traditional farming skills once passed down through the generations were lost.  People now struggle to sustain small businesses.

Improving Mental Health in Agago District

2022-2025

National Lottery Community Fund logo

Livelihood Support for People with Mental Health Issues

2019 - 2022

Community Mental Health Matters, Kalongo, Agago District

Community Mental Health Matters, Agago District

2017 - 2020

Patongo Community Counselling Outreach

Patongo Community Counselling Outreach

2010 - 2018

The Lioness Fund

The Lioness Fund, Patongo, Northern Uganda

2011 - 2018

Ribbe Aye Teko – Women’s Income Generating Group

2011 - 2016

HIV Counselling

HIV Counselling, Patongo

2012 - 2018

Income Generating Activities

Income Generating Activities

2014 - 2017

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With your financial support Network for Africa can give the counselling training needed to help resourceful and resilient community members leave the harmful legacy of conflict behind.

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Lincolnshire PE9 2DF

Phone: 0203 951 0863
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PO Box 6609
Charlottesville VA 22906

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Network for Africa is a charity registered in the UK - 1120932.

Network for Africa is a 501(c)(3) and our tax ID is 26-1502938.

Network for Africa is a charity registered in both the USA and the UK, but we use the spelling most commonly used in Africa on this website.

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