Acholi gets sh2b for peace
FOUR war-ravaged Acholi districts have received $134,000 (sh2.4b) to boost peace-building and reconciliation through collecting views of the people at the grassroots. <br>
By Chris Ocowun
FOUR war-ravaged Acholi districts have received $134,000 (sh2.4b) to boost peace-building and reconciliation through collecting views of the people at the grassroots.
World Vision children of war rehabilitation centre outreach coordinator Sam Kilara said the project would be established in Gulu, Amuru, Kitgum and Pader districts.
He told Gulu members of the reconciliation and peace team during a consultative meeting at St. Monica girls tailoring school that the pilot project would last three months.
The manager of the rehabilitation centre, Mark Avola, said: “Unless the last man in the village knows about peace and talks about it, we shall be wasting our time on peace-building and reconciliation.â€
He said there were many children still under LRA captivity and their parents expected them back alive.
Avola said World Vision is facilitating the districts peace teams to talk to the local people so that they can embrace the Juba talks.
Gulu LC5 chairman Norbert Mao said there were so many peace actors not only in Gulu but in the whole of Acholi, who were disorganised.
He said: “We should set the agenda for peace ourselves. not the Americans, not Chissano (the UN special envoy for northern Uganda, Joaquim Chissano). we are the navigators, so we should not be like passengers.â€
Mao proposed that the money donated by world vision be used to rehabilitate the war-affected children who are scattered on the streets.
He added that part of the money should be used to develop a mobile library and film van to show the various films of Kony and his commanders in Garamba.
“We shall also need some of this money to reward those who looked after and raised abandoned children,†he said.
FOUR war-ravaged Acholi districts have received $134,000 (sh2.4b) to boost peace-building and reconciliation through collecting views of the people at the grassroots.
World Vision children of war rehabilitation centre outreach coordinator Sam Kilara said the project would be established in Gulu, Amuru, Kitgum and Pader districts.
He told Gulu members of the reconciliation and peace team during a consultative meeting at St. Monica girls tailoring school that the pilot project would last three months.
The manager of the rehabilitation centre, Mark Avola, said: “Unless the last man in the village knows about peace and talks about it, we shall be wasting our time on peace-building and reconciliation.â€
He said there were many children still under LRA captivity and their parents expected them back alive.
Avola said World Vision is facilitating the districts peace teams to talk to the local people so that they can embrace the Juba talks.
Gulu LC5 chairman Norbert Mao said there were so many peace actors not only in Gulu but in the whole of Acholi, who were disorganised.
He said: “We should set the agenda for peace ourselves. not the Americans, not Chissano (the UN special envoy for northern Uganda, Joaquim Chissano). we are the navigators, so we should not be like passengers.â€
Mao proposed that the money donated by world vision be used to rehabilitate the war-affected children who are scattered on the streets.
He added that part of the money should be used to develop a mobile library and film van to show the various films of Kony and his commanders in Garamba.
“We shall also need some of this money to reward those who looked after and raised abandoned children,†he said.