100 Day Countdown Begins!

In 100 days, I will be headed for Texas for training and then off to UGANDA for a month!! I'm very excited!!
Some of you may be wondering what exactly is going on in Uganda. You may have heard about child soldiers and a war, but are still wondering what is actually happening and how it all fits together. I did a little research because I was wondering the same thing. This is what I've come up with:

In 1987 one of Africa’s longest running conflicts began. This conflict still continues today and effects people in ways that are unimaginable to so many. The Lord’s Resistance Army emerged under the leadership of Joseph Kony, who makes claims that he is the “spokesperson” for God. The LRA has engaged in armed rebellion against the Ugandan government and is made up of abducted children who are forced to kill and participate in acts of war. Many children would commute from their villages to larger cities at night to avoid night attacks and abductions. They were called Night Commuters. Because the LRA was attacking villages, the Ugandan government forced many people out of their homes and into overcrowded Internally Displaced Persons Camps. Within the past few years talks between the government and the LRA to end the conflict failed and the war raged on. Since those peace talks failed, the LRA has spread to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and southern Sudan. In the past few years, 800,000 of the 1.8 million people displaced from this conflict, have been able to return home. But they have nothing to return home to. Villages have been destroyed and famlies have been torn apart. And 1 million are still left in IDP camps. While these camps provide places for these people to live, they are over crowded and are over run with disease. Many of the children who have been rescued from the LRA have no family and have been through extremely traumatic experiences. They are scared both physically and emotionally.

Here is a video I made with some statistics about Uganda.


Keep praying for the finances to come in and also pray for the people of Uganda!

(information found on: ugandarising.com, invisiblechildren.com, savethechildren.org, wikipedia.com, hcareuganda.org)