Uganda Trip-4
We visited a primary school in the Aber ADP amongst all of the trips to sponsored children's houses and wanted to share a picture of the children and headmaster at this school as well as a building.
On Wednesday, 4/2, we visited another ADP, the Paicho-Bungatir ADP. The director of this ADP is Abok Paul and they have been in existence for about four months. It is not far from Gulu. In the morning we visited an IDP (Internal Displaced Persons) camp which was just across the street and a few hundred yards down the road from the ADP headquarters. This IDP is about one square kilometer and while houses are tightly packed together, it was one of the "better" ones that we visited relatively speaking. Following are several pictures of this IDP camp.
As you can see, they have a well with a number of water containers surrounding it which means that they have access to clean water. The women and children are responsible for getting water.
We also visited another primary school in this ADP area. These children have no desks or chairs to sit in--they sit on the concrete floor. As the headmaster noted, when it rains it makes it very difficult because the floor becomes wet. As I mentioned in an earlier post, schools do not have glassed in windows. Here is a picture of a classroom at this school.
In the afternoon we toured the Coope Health center in Bungatira. The physician there is Dr. Willy, and he were all impressed by his dedication. The health center deals with HIV/AIDs and he said that in northern Uganda the infection rate is about 13% whereas the infection rate for the country as a whole is about 9%. He gave us a brief tour and we prayed with him before we left. Below is a picture of Dr. Willy and the health center.
On Wednesday, 4/2, we visited another ADP, the Paicho-Bungatir ADP. The director of this ADP is Abok Paul and they have been in existence for about four months. It is not far from Gulu. In the morning we visited an IDP (Internal Displaced Persons) camp which was just across the street and a few hundred yards down the road from the ADP headquarters. This IDP is about one square kilometer and while houses are tightly packed together, it was one of the "better" ones that we visited relatively speaking. Following are several pictures of this IDP camp.
As you can see, they have a well with a number of water containers surrounding it which means that they have access to clean water. The women and children are responsible for getting water.
We also visited another primary school in this ADP area. These children have no desks or chairs to sit in--they sit on the concrete floor. As the headmaster noted, when it rains it makes it very difficult because the floor becomes wet. As I mentioned in an earlier post, schools do not have glassed in windows. Here is a picture of a classroom at this school.
In the afternoon we toured the Coope Health center in Bungatira. The physician there is Dr. Willy, and he were all impressed by his dedication. The health center deals with HIV/AIDs and he said that in northern Uganda the infection rate is about 13% whereas the infection rate for the country as a whole is about 9%. He gave us a brief tour and we prayed with him before we left. Below is a picture of Dr. Willy and the health center.
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