Uganda's forgotten...

For almost 20 years now the people of Northern Uganda have been terrorized by a rebel group, the LRA, and ignored by their own government. Just under 2 million people are forced to live in camps seeking safety. Northwest Medical Teams provides a mobile medical clinic to as many of the camps as donations allows, I am here, April/May 2006, as a nurse helping to provide health care to these camps.

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Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

Mahatma Ghandi once said that “with every true friendship we build more firmly the foundation on which the peace of the whole world rests.”

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Acokora Camp in Apac District, northern Uganda. Children have only mangoes to eat until the crops produce in 3-4 weeks. These are the poorest of the poor.

Children standing among the huts of an IDP camp in northern Uganda.