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According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs "the food crisis in northeastern Uganda's Karamoja region has reached such a dire level that more than one million people are in need of emergency food aid" - read the full article here.

CHIPS is working with thousands of such affected Karimojong people by providing seeds and tools for cultivation and food for work until the next harvest comes.

Aerial view of Karimojong manyattas

Last October, I was privileged to be asked to visit Ghana to carry out an evaluation of the peacebuilding work of a West African organisation, SEND, working in the NE of the country.

Meeting with elders

Having never travelled in West Africa before it was not with a little excitement that I stepped off the plane and travelled into the bush. Facilitated by SEND, I spent time meeting local chiefs, elders, youth, entrepeneurs, farmers and many local people who told me about their daily lives and the challenges they face.

Last September, long-time CHIPS supporter William Wilson made the long journey from Scotland to NE Uganda to visit the CHIPS team and find out all about CHIPS work there. William writes...

William with CHIPS Project Manager Simon-Peter

"This was my first visit to Uganda - it was a huge culture shock, and the more so as you travelled further from Kampala to Soroti, Iriri, and finally Apeitolim. Arriving at Apeitolim, the first impression is that it is basic, but orderly. The CHIPS project consists of a few traditional huts surrounded by neat plantations. It became clear that a lot of thought had gone in using what were mostly local resources. People had been resettling Apeitolim for about a year – it had been the site of a CHIPS project a few years ago, until an attack caused the inhabitants to flee.

A group of friends from Croxley Green, near Watford in Hertfordshire, recently completed a walk across the top of England, and helped raise funds for CHIPS in the process.

Made It!

Brian Thomson and Phil Brading, both members of St. Oswald’s Parish Church in Croxley Green, undertook the famous Coast to Coast walk with their friends Ges and Jane Carey. The walk, from St Bees on the Cumbrian west coast, to Robin Hood’s Bay on the east coast, covers a distance of 190 miles (305km) and passes through three of England’s spectacular National Parks, the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors.

Our Annual Report for 2006-07 is now available - please click here to download a copy.

A UN envoy has recently called attention to the fact that Northern Uganda is not in as much crisis as Karamoja. For the full story reported in the Daily Monitor click here.

The second study weekend for the CHIPS Fellowship took place in Clapham, London on 3-4 March 2007.

After introducing ourselves, making shared agreements about our time together and having a short time of worship, Becky and Jamie led our first session on "Peace perspectives on atonement".

Mark Cuthbert, CHIPS Director, has just returned from 3 weeks in Uganda. A report of his trip can be downloaded here.

Teso-Karamoja cross border meeting of village elders (February 2007)

Our Annual Report for 2005-06 is now available - please click here to download a copy.

CHIPS Uganda Team (April 2006)