Scots donate to northern IDPs
Nov 30, 2005
The Scotland-based Hunter Foundation has donated US$1.6m (sh2.9b) to reinforce humanitarian interventions for vulnerable children and women in war-torn northern Uganda.
By F. Ahimbisibwe
The Scotland-based Hunter Foundation has donated US$1.6m (sh2.9b) to reinforce humanitarian interventions for vulnerable children and women in war-torn northern Uganda.
The money, channelled through the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), was received through the UK Committee for UNICEF.
“This will accelerate the provision of services in emergency health and nutrition, water and environmental sanitation, education, child protection and shelter and household items to benefit 340,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), including 272,000 children and women in Kitgum district,†a UNICEF statement said yesterday.
Ewan Hunter, the chief executive of the Hunter Foundation, said northern Uganda’s conflict-affected districts continued to require “enormous support.â€
“Northern Uganda and Kitgum district in particular have been crippled by conflict and a lack of basic everyday needs, yet the region has gone virtually unnoticed. We make this commitment in the full knowledge that UNICEF will do an extraordinary job in applying this modest sum to maximum impact.
We truly hope others will also support this region in its ‘hour of need’ that has literally lasted years,†he said.
Over 1.6m people continue to live in IDP camps, despite a fall in attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels.
UNICEF country representative Martin Mogwanja said the Foundation’s “significant contribution is based on a shared affirmation of childhood as a distinct period of humanity.â€
The Scotland-based Hunter Foundation has donated US$1.6m (sh2.9b) to reinforce humanitarian interventions for vulnerable children and women in war-torn northern Uganda.
The money, channelled through the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), was received through the UK Committee for UNICEF.
“This will accelerate the provision of services in emergency health and nutrition, water and environmental sanitation, education, child protection and shelter and household items to benefit 340,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), including 272,000 children and women in Kitgum district,†a UNICEF statement said yesterday.
Ewan Hunter, the chief executive of the Hunter Foundation, said northern Uganda’s conflict-affected districts continued to require “enormous support.â€
“Northern Uganda and Kitgum district in particular have been crippled by conflict and a lack of basic everyday needs, yet the region has gone virtually unnoticed. We make this commitment in the full knowledge that UNICEF will do an extraordinary job in applying this modest sum to maximum impact.
We truly hope others will also support this region in its ‘hour of need’ that has literally lasted years,†he said.
Over 1.6m people continue to live in IDP camps, despite a fall in attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels.
UNICEF country representative Martin Mogwanja said the Foundation’s “significant contribution is based on a shared affirmation of childhood as a distinct period of humanity.â€