The Centre was founded in 1987 by Bernardetta Akwero a native of the same place at the peak of the Lord`s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in Northern Uganda. It was also safe havens for night commuters during the LRA insurgency.
St Jude Children`s Home is currently home to eighty
most vulnerable children drawn from across Northern Uganda.
It has kept over
3000 children since establishment in 1987.
The children include those with physical disability,
those abandoned by their parents as young as one day old and others who are HIV positive.
Above
all it also provides education, spiritual upbringing and health services to the
children. It sits on about 100 acres of land located in St Jude
Parish in Bardege Division Gulu Municipality.
The Centre was founded in 1987 by Bernardetta Akwero a
native of the same place at the peak of the Lord`s Resistance Army (LRA)
insurgency in Northern Uganda. It was also safe havens for night commuters
during the LRA insurgency.
Josephine Ogwetta, the Centre`s Deputy Director says
some of the children has been reinstated with their families, while others
adopted by foster parents.
Following the death of Akwero in 2004, the Centre was
fully established by the missionaries in 2004 and registered with the Ministry
of Gender and Social Development with an average of 80 children received
yearly.
On Saturday, Roke Telekom Internet Service Company led
by Timothy Mugenyi, the company`s manager donated food, detergents, sanitary
pads and cleaning items worth seven million shillings to support the Centre’s
operation.
The items included bars of bathing soap, sanitary
pads, washing basins and buckets, bags of posho, sugar, cooking oil, rice,
beans, a deep freezer and exercise books.
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Ogwetta told URN on Saturday that the Centre is
surviving on donations from well-wishers, Non-Government Organizations and its
farm located in Koch Amar in Koch Goma Sub County Nwoya district.
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Emmy Daniel Ojara is a young journalist and has been practicing since 2013, during which he covered land rights violation in the contested Apaa and Lakang in Amuru as his first take ups while at Gulu Fm, Favor Fm and later Paidha Fm and Speak Fm where he is still attached.
Human rights abuses and denied access to land by security and government agencies has been the major aftermath of the contest over the lands. The underprivileged such as women, children and the elderly faced challenges in accessing soc
Emmy Daniel Ojara
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