Stella Lanam, Director of War Victims and Children Networking Initiative revealed that many war victims are being rejected by the communities and also currently facing a lot of challenges within the community they lived.
War victims under their umbrella, War Victims and Children
Networking Initiative have called on the government to support them
against rejection by community members.
Stella Lanam, Director of War Victims and Children Networking
Initiative revealed that many war victims are being rejected by the communities
and also face a lot of challenges within the communities they lived.
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Stella further noted that there have been many efforts by the
government to support communities in northern Uganda but it was at the time
when communities were still in the camps.
William Openy, Program Manager War Victims and Children Networking
Initiative said that victims are being stigmatized by community members and are
running away from the community.
Openy noted that this has forced many victims into renting
houses in semi-urban areas and slums in order to survive which has made their
lives miserable.
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Akello Sandra Otika, a student at Gulu University and a victim
told URN that many of them as children born in
captivity and children of victims are failing to secure tuition for their
studies due to lack of resources.
Sandra however appeals to the government and well-wishers to
come in and support them in sponsorship so that they can access education which
is very instrumental to their lives.
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Sheikh Musa Khalil, Regional Assistant to the Mufti of Northern
Uganda urged the government to speed up their interventions to support these
victims of war since their lives are very miserable.
Khalil further noted that the government needs to come out and
put special interventions that could see that the life of the victims change
for good and also for their inclusion in the community.
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On 13th February 2019, Parliament of Uganda
passed a resolution to support formerly abducted women and children born in
captivity during the period Northern Uganda was engulfed with rebel activities
and the then Speaker of Parliament asked the office of the prime minister to
intervene and support the victims.
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