Opportunities for Service, March 08
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Food crisis in Karamoja (NE Uganda) March 2008
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
From Montrose to Apeitolim
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.
Coast To Coast for CHIPS
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.
CHIPS Annual Report 2006-7
Our Annual Report for 2006-07 is now available - please click here to download a copy.
Karamoja worse than northern Uganda says UN
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.
Annual Report 2005-06
Our Annual Report for 2005-06 is now available - please click here to download a copy.
CHIPS Uganda Team (April 2006)
459 Die in Cattle Rustling
A recent article in the Ugandan newspaper 'New Vision' reports that Uganda registered the highest number of human deaths and theft of livestock as a result of cattle rustling among the seven countries in the Horn of Africa. It is estimated that 459 people were killed and around 10 000 animals stolen in the first 8 months of this year. See the whole article here.
The Karamoja Regional Council have also recently called for the Ugandan government to implement the Karamoja Integrated Disarmament and Development Plan rather than the heavy handed disarmament that has been taking place recently - read more here.
CHIPS in the Press (Dec 2006)
Following the 40th Anniversary Party for CHIPS on the 30th November various articles have been appearing in the papers and on the internet. Here are a few – do let us know if you spot any others…
“Archbishop of York attacks UK and US policy in Iraq” in The Guardian “(1 Dec 2006).
“Archbishop of York attacks Government policy over Iraq” by Ekklesia (1 Dec 2006).
Ugandan Government Truce with LRA, 26th August 06
The Ugandan Government and the Lord's Resistance Army have recently signed a truce aimed at ending the 20 year conflict in the north of Uganda which has killed thousands and displaced more than one million people.
For more details from the BBC click here. For a different slant to that of the BBC about why the ICC should withdraw indictments against the top LRA leaders click here.
This is obviously encouraging news.
