Germany Aids Kony Victims

Sep 17, 2002

THE German government has donated non-food relief items worth EUR155,000 (approximately US$150,000) to the over 15,000 people displaced after recent LRA rebel-attacks in Northern Uganda.

By Jude Etyang
THE German government has donated non-food relief items worth EUR155,000 (approximately US$150,000) to the over 15,000 people displaced after recent LRA rebel-attacks in Northern Uganda.

The German Ambassador, Klaus Holderbaum, yesterday handed over the items which include over 5,000 jerrycans and other cooking utencils, blankets and tents to the Director of Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS), Robert Kwesiga.

Holderbaum said the money had been raised through the German Red Cross and the foreign affairs ministry in Berlin.

He said the donation brings the overall financial support of the German government to the war victims in Northern Uganda to EUR350,000 in less than two months.

He said in August, the German government donated over EUR200,000 to Caritas-Gulu, an NGO to support newly displaced people in Gulu, Kitgum and Pader.

Holderbaum suggested that URCS should also distribute the aid to the people of Lira and Apach who have suffered rebel attacks.

He said all relief goods will be purchased locally so that Uganda can benefit twice, covering the needy and the manufactucturers.

Kwesiga said URCS would begin distributing the items to the displaced in Gulu, Pader and Kitgum next week. He said medicine was yet to arrive from Kenya.

The donation is part of the humanitarian aid of the German government for the North.
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