Muslims donate to Lango IDPs
Jul 21, 2005
Muslims have donated eight truckloads of second-hand clothes to the internally displaced persons (IDPs)in Lango.
By Robert Okodia and Mark Owor
Muslims have donated eight truckloads of second-hand clothes to the internally displaced persons (IDPs)in Lango.
The items were raised through the Voice of Africa radio and handed to the Uganda Red Cross Society, who distributed them to the IDPs.
Ricky Asiimwe of the Red Cross said on Tuesday that about 90,000 in the IDP camps in Lira and Apac districts benefited from the donation.
“We distributed clothes in Ojwii, Ader and Anyomolyec camps in Otwal sub-county and in Itubara and Bario camps in Nagi sub-county, Oyam north,†he said.
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Muslims have donated eight truckloads of second-hand clothes to the internally displaced persons (IDPs)in Lango.
The items were raised through the Voice of Africa radio and handed to the Uganda Red Cross Society, who distributed them to the IDPs.
Ricky Asiimwe of the Red Cross said on Tuesday that about 90,000 in the IDP camps in Lira and Apac districts benefited from the donation.
“We distributed clothes in Ojwii, Ader and Anyomolyec camps in Otwal sub-county and in Itubara and Bario camps in Nagi sub-county, Oyam north,†he said.
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