Congo children to fly home

By Kyetume Kasanga One hunrded and seventeen children of mainly the Hema tribe rescued in the DR Congo last year are to be flown back to their homeland in Bunia today. Masindi RDC Betty Adima told the New Vision on Friday that the children had been counselled at the World Vision centre for traumatised children in Kiryandongo in Masindi district. "We have had these children for the last four months but they are now ready to be flown back home," Adima said. She said UNICEF, the world body responsible for the children, was handling their movement. Adima told the district council that some of the children sold their personal effects to raise transport money while others had escaped. "We have reports that three have re-united with their families but others were in the Lake Albert areas trying to reach home," he said. their way," she said. Ends