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As a result of attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (a rebel group which has been fighting against the Government of Uganda for the last 20 years) over 3,000 people fled from the north of Uganda. Many fled to a town called Soroti in the centre of the country, but some continued their journey to Akoboi, a small village 25 kilometres further on. After walking for more than four days, they arrived with very little money and no food. The community leaders of Akoboi contacted the pastor of the ...
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by Esther Harder
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A case study about a tool to allow communities to work together and reduce dependency on outside help
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by Stellah Tumwebaze. LABE (Literacy and Adult Basic Education) is an organisation based in Kampala working in 14 districts of Uganda. It has wide experience in promoting literacy rights. Here they share some of their experience and help us to consider the basic steps to follow when starting a literacy programme.
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by Ann Shrosbree. These Rights are Mine is a project that explores the rights of the child with young people in Uganda. It uses theatre in secondary schools as a way of encouraging information-sharing and the participation of young people.
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by Susie Hart. In 1997 I spent three months at a L’Arche community in Kampala, Uganda. L’Arche is a Christian organisation that provides a lifelong family environment for people with learning difficulties, living together with one another and their carers. Many of their communities have craft workshops to provide income and useful activities for their members. When I arrived, equipped only with a small bag of candle making equipment, I found to my dismay there was no workshop and I was ...
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by Jonathan Anderson and Todd Rasmusen. Mission Moving Mountains had been working with the community of Mbiti village, Uganda. We had visited all the homesteads and held a number of community meetings and now people were ready to select a leadership committee to be trained and empowered as community leaders.
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Advice from some successful groups Put the trainees’ needs firstIn Uganda the Community Based Health Care Association (UCBHCA) has found that the way training is organised and conducted is very important. They give first priority to making sure the training is relevant to the needs of their trainees, participatory and appropriate for adult learners. They believe that their training is a model for the way in which trainees will, in turn, share what they learn. Their facilitators are therefore ...
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A collection of ideas on storing and using it..Moulds for water jars. The water department in the Diocese of Kigezi, Uganda uses specially shaped wooden moulds which fit together to form the shape of a small water jar. Clay is used to smooth any gaps before plastering over the moulds with layers of cement. Once the mortar has set firm (within a day) the moulds can be removed through the lid of the jar. The Department has about ten similar sets of moulds which can be reused over and ...
