Gulu NGOs get 25 computers

Dec 16, 2005

NGOs in northern Uganda need to work with the Government to ensure that the war in the region ends, the state minister for primary health has said.

By Nicholas Kajoba
NGOs in northern Uganda need to work with the Government to ensure that the war in the region ends, the state minister for primary health has said.
Dr. Alex Kamugisha was on Wednesday presiding over the hand-over of 25 computers worth sh22m to Gulu Aid Initiative at Hotel Diplomate, Kampala.
Dr. Ken Henry of Byaline Natural Therapy Centre in Australia handed over the computers to musician Angella Katatumba’s Gulu Aid Initiative.
Other donations included sh500,000 from Britania Industries, 1,000 plates from Mukwano Industries and two boxes of clothes from the Ministry of Health.
“We have to make an effort to change the lives of people in northern Uganda, especially the children. They have faced trauma and brutality,” he said.
Kamugisha said the Government ensures that the rights of children, especially those in northern Uganda, were not violated.
“The rights of children have been denied for long due to the Kony insurgence in northern Uganda, but the Government has tried to defend them,” he said.
Kamugisha added that the Constitution provides for many children’s rights, yet the northern Uganda children have not enjoyed any of them.
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