World participates in Gulu Walk
ON Saturday, thousands of people in 80 cities in 15 countries around the world, walked through their respective cities to raise awareness and funds for the people of northern Uganda. <br>
By Norman Miwambo in London
ON Saturday, thousands of people in 80 cities in 15 countries around the world, walked through their respective cities to raise awareness and funds for the people of northern Uganda.
Children dominated the walk to have a sense of what their fellow teenagers go through everyday in Uganda.
According to Gulu Walk website, “With 20 walks in Canada, 44 in the United States and events in Australia, Burkina Faso, China, England, France, Italy, Kenya, Netherlands, New Zealand, Serbia and Togo, it’s clear that this is not a fringe issue but one that citizens from every corner of the globe want to see their governments engage in.
“This current round of peace talks (between the LRA rebels and the Government) are at a critical point and this may very well be the last opportunity to find a peaceful solution to this 20-year crisis,†said Adrian Bradbury, co-founder of Gulu Walk.
“It’s vital that individual governments and the international community step up and make a clear public statement in support of this process. If we remain silent, we better be prepared to answer to the two million northern Ugandans suffering through this conflict, why we chose, and it is a choice, to sit idly by,†Bradbury said.
Other walks were simultaneously held in Kampala and Gulu. In London, about 100 people, including toddlers, gathered at Glamis Estate playground in Shadwell.Â
A group of Jewish teenagers, having read about the cause in the Metro-News, had set up their own action group and website, and were organising a gig to contribute to the $1m target education, rehabilitation and youth support programmes in the north.
ON Saturday, thousands of people in 80 cities in 15 countries around the world, walked through their respective cities to raise awareness and funds for the people of northern Uganda.
Children dominated the walk to have a sense of what their fellow teenagers go through everyday in Uganda.
According to Gulu Walk website, “With 20 walks in Canada, 44 in the United States and events in Australia, Burkina Faso, China, England, France, Italy, Kenya, Netherlands, New Zealand, Serbia and Togo, it’s clear that this is not a fringe issue but one that citizens from every corner of the globe want to see their governments engage in.
“This current round of peace talks (between the LRA rebels and the Government) are at a critical point and this may very well be the last opportunity to find a peaceful solution to this 20-year crisis,†said Adrian Bradbury, co-founder of Gulu Walk.
“It’s vital that individual governments and the international community step up and make a clear public statement in support of this process. If we remain silent, we better be prepared to answer to the two million northern Ugandans suffering through this conflict, why we chose, and it is a choice, to sit idly by,†Bradbury said.
Other walks were simultaneously held in Kampala and Gulu. In London, about 100 people, including toddlers, gathered at Glamis Estate playground in Shadwell.Â
A group of Jewish teenagers, having read about the cause in the Metro-News, had set up their own action group and website, and were organising a gig to contribute to the $1m target education, rehabilitation and youth support programmes in the north.