Rackoko

Northern Uganda is different from the south, how - well busyness is one of them. Driving up to the north takes hours - the roads are not paved - it's red dust roads - love it.

The IDP camps (Internally Displaced People) have their own stories, but the people have all been told to move from their villages. Some of their stories are to strong/horrible to tell, it breaks my heart. All the evil that is out there, how people are deceived and blinded from the Truth. This is the reason we need to go out, so they will learn about the Living God that gives hope in a hopeless situation. That will love them when love is missing....

Now that things have settled down and the peace talks are somewhat in process, people are starting to go out and plant so that they can get food to their families - sell some of it and get money to buy from others. Less than 1 year ago, they had a curfew at 5 pm - they had a lot of fear - in fact they still do with good reason. Slowly but surely they are getting back into a routine, that seems normal....

The children find time to play, some are in school - but there are to many in one class. In the one nurcery we visited there are about 60 children in each class, and they have 5 classrooms - would you like to be there when they have a break, that is about 300 children...... try to keep them in order

In the IDP camp that I visited, about 80 % are infected with the HIV/AIDS virus, and on top of that many of them get malaria. The children are the ones that get affected the most when their parents dies and they don't have relatives in the camp. What to do, where to go, what now??