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12 Jun 2009
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Uganda
As the world marks the 2009 Day Against Child Labor, Uganda needs to do more to tackle its serious problem

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AVSI, International Rescue Committee
Friday 12th June, Kampala, Uganda - With the World Day Against Child Labor upon us on 12th June, a newly published survey shows that 15% of children in north and northeast Uganda are involved in harsh, dangerous labor - often putting them in harm's way and depriving them of the chance to go to school.

The survey, commissioned by two aid agencies - the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and AVSI Foundation- found that an additional 26% of children are 'at risk' of becoming child laborers.

"Every day, tens of thousands of

20 Jun 2008
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Uganda
Uganda: African day of the child

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AVSI
18 June, 2008, Gulu - Thousands gathered at Kaunda Grounds in Gulu, Northern Uganda on Monday to celebrate the 17th annual Day of the African Child. With the event dedicated this year to the African child's right to participate, children sang, danced, and told stories about challenges faced in the post-conflict setting of Northern Uganda.

'The day was an attempt to increase awareness and advocacy of child involvement in community development,' explained Samuele Rizzo, from AVSI Gulu. 'In particular, AVSI's focus has been on

07 May 2008
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Uganda
Back to(wards) my home: Individual experiences of returning IDPs in Northern Uganda

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AVSI
Kitgum, Northern Uganda - A report released today by AVSI Uganda highlights the experiences of individuals in Acholiland as they move out of the camps, and return back to, or towards, their homes. The report examines the complexity of moving on from this conflict and displacement in the light of an uncertain peace, and the challenges of rebuilding nearly a generation of historically rural infrastructure.

After more than two decades of conflict in Northern Uganda between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan Government, the optimism for peace brought by the Juba Peace Talks was

31 Jan 2008
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Uganda
Acholibur IDP camp, Northern Uganda

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AVSI
Brett Morton, AVSI Comunications

Officials from OFDA met with AVSI representatives in Acholibur IDP camp on Thursday to discuss their partnership and the changing direction of humanitarian aid in Northern Uganda. As IDPs in Acholiland begin to return from main camps towards their villages of origin, the nature of the humanitarian response must adjust accordingly, expressed the team from OFDA.

"Our programs will naturally become more development-oriented as the situation here changes," explained Francesca Oliva, AVSI Wat-San Officer. "Drawing upon AVSI's long history

16 Dec 2007
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Uganda
Uganda: Human Rights Day '07

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Morton / AVSI Communications

As peace returns to Northern Uganda, so to do the liberties of it's society. After more than two decades of insecurity and the associated losses of freedom, the rebuilding of the North continued on Monday with a celebration of human rights.

Nearly 1,000 people gathered at Boma Grounds in Kitgum today to recognize International Human Rights Day 2007 and the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR.)

Speakers and performers drew attention to work being done by local and international organizations in supporting

10 Sep 2007
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Uganda
Uganda: AVSI Ogom flood relief

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AVSI
AVSI, in partnership with UNICEF, distributed Non-Food Item (NFI) kits in Ogom Akuyam, a return site in Pader, Northern Uganda, where flooding has displaced more than 100 people and affected almost 500. Unusually heavy rainfall has led to an increase of the ground water levels causing huts and latrines to become saturated. AVSI has just confirmed that at least one of the communities' three boreholes has been contaminated.

On Friday, the assistance of NFI kits containing blankets, tarpaulins, soap, and cooking utensils was provided

21 May 2007
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AVSI Uganda annual report 2006: The human challenge

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AVSI NUMBERS IN 2006
Area of Operation: 16 districts, 34 IDP camps in the con?ict-affected northern Uganda (Kitgum, Pader, Gulu, Amuru).

HEALTH

- 7 Hospitals and 9 Health centres in Gulu/Amuru, Kitgum, Pader, Hoima districts supported with salaries to staff (17 doctors, 85 health workers, 9 administrative staff, 19 support staff), provision of diagnostic & medical equipment, drugs, disinfectant, soap and medical sundries, stationary, food for patients, formula milk for nutrition unit, logistic support; support to Hoima Regional hospital surgical ward

05 Apr 2007
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Uganda
Uganda: Fire outbreak in Lacekocot IDP Camp hits 925 Household - AVSI intervention

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AVSI
The alert reached AVSI office on Monday afternoon: hundreds of huts in Lacekocot, in Pader district, were burning. By the end of the day, more than 1000 huts got burnt and 925 Households lost all their properties.

The cause was accidental. Rumours said that one hut got burnt due to children playing with the fire. The strong wind then spread the fire to the other huts, very close to each others.

AVSI immediately intervened, first with an assessment of the situation that gave the real number of Households affected. AVSI is now the agency in charge for the distribution of non

13 Feb 2007
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Uganda
Wishing for a new start: Experiences of return and resettlement in one IDP camp in Northern Uganda

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AVSI
By Valentina Frigerio

The area in front of the Omiya Anyima sub-county council is large enough to host a soccer match. Children are playing with a small ball made out of pieces of plastic bags and rags. School has not yet started, but this year will be no different than the last: the children will study in the same displaced school of the IDP camp. Luckily, AVSI has been able to rehabilitate some blocks of the old school building in Lupur so at least the children will be able to learn in a safer environment. Omiya Anyima is found in the district of Kitgum, in Northern

13 Feb 2007
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Uganda
The Acholi Unsung Heroes- An encounter with a group of elderly in Akilok IDP camp

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AVSI
By Valentina Frigerio

White hair and faces seamed with wrinkles. Little by little they all gather together under the shadow of a mango tree. Some of them reach the assembly point leaning on their staffs, others are helped by friends. Today AVSI is implementing the follow-up of a FAO-funded project through which a group of elderly people in Akilok Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Northern Uganda received goats as an income generating activity.

"This activity targeted two main categories: older persons at-risk and child-headed households", says

31 May 2006
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Uganda
Uganda: Gulu District landmine/ERW victims survey report

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

I. Background

For the last 20 years, the Acholi region of Northern Uganda has suffered from continued armed conflict that has led to contamination of mines and explosive remnants of war (ERW). Although the number of mines present in Uganda is less than other mine-affected countries (Afghanistan, Angola, Mozambique, Iraq, etc.), the nature of mine use has created a difficult problem to address. There is little or no information(1) on the location or suspicion of mines because such ordnances have been used on an ad hoc basis. Most of the landmines are found in remote

11 Nov 2005
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Uganda
Humanitarian organisations in northern Uganda at a crossroad: The need for humanitarian space to safely deliver aid

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AVSI
In just 14 days, 5 aid workers and one foreign national have been killed by the notorious Lords' Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in northern Uganda and southern Sudan. (1)
The attacks have seen major humanitarian organisations suspend relief operations that require road movements in the region.

It is said that the killings are a "kick back" reaction to arrest warrants for the top 5 LRA leaders, issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the 14th October. Nevertheless, the attacks do not come as a surprise to many in Uganda. Religious Leaders

31 Aug 2005
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Mine risk education and victim support in northern Uganda

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Background: AVSI in the region
Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internazionale (The Association of Volunteers in International Service - AVSI) is an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in Italy in 1972. AVSI promotes cultural, social and economic development according to Catholic social teaching, especially in the most disadvantaged in developing nations and countries in transition. Working in cooperation with local organizations, governments and international agencies, AVSI has programs in 32 countries of Africa, Latin America, Eastern
15 Sep 2004
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Uganda
HIV seroprevalence in northern Uganda: The complex relationship between AIDS and conflict

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AVSI
Acholiland in Northern Uganda is devastated by an 18-year old conflict, which caused, especially since 1996, a massive displacement, involving at present about 90% of the civil population. The dimension of the conflict has caused severe vulnerability in the population, forced in congested Internally Displaced People's (IDPs) Camps, lacking basic services and exposed to brutal disruption of the economic and social fabric of communities and the families.

This situation is matter for a great concern that the national declines of HIV seroprevalence might be reversed

06 Oct 2003
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Uganda
Waiting games: Growing up with war in northern Uganda

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AVSI
By Gina L. Bramucci
A teenaged boy on the sideline looks up from playing cards to make the call. The players, their faces sweaty in the hot sun, stop the game and lean on each other's shoulders, laughing.

They laugh at each mistake, at each wild kick of the ball, at each tangle of legs that ends up with someone on the ground. They laugh because this is a welcome break in their long days of working with counselors and waiting to go home. And they laugh because it's been too long since these hands were free to hold a ball instead of a gun.

There are 61 young people at the Kitgum

26 Sep 2002
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Albania: First report on flood emergency

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AVSI
This is a first report on the flood that has affected areas in Northern and Southern Albania.
1.Centre-North: so far the state road Milot - Lezhe is blocked, the water level reaches one metre, cars proceed along a secondary road. The level of the waters of the River Mat has risen remarkably. The rain has caused landslides along the whole road leading to Mat. Although the rain is over, now, the consequences are serious. The situation at Lezha is very difficult and has remained so over the past 24 hours because the rain did not stop; it is worse in three districts