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Uganda: Men Shun Landmine Survivors
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New Vision (Kampala)
8 May 2008
Posted to the web 9 May 2008
Chris Ocowun
Kampala
Female landmine survivors in the north have complained that their husbands have abandoned them.
Many of them are single mothers, looking after their children with the help of AVSI, an Italian organisation carrying out landmine risk education in the area.
Jennifer Lanyero, whose leg was blown off by a landmine in 1996, said her husband left her with the two children.
"My in-laws and advised my husband to reject me because of the disability. My husband used to beat me up and stopped giving me money for food and paying the children's school fees," she told The New Vision on Tuesday.
Lanyero, a resident of Koch-Goma sub-county in Amuru district, added: "I underwent several hardships and people deserted me. I still feel pain in the leg." She appealed for legal assistance to enable their husbands provide for the children.
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Lanyero wondered why men abandoned their wives yet women don't leave their husbands who were disabled by landmines. Mike Ochan Ongom, AVSI's mine risk educator, said there were many such victims in Gulu, Kitgum, Lira and Pader districts.
Ochan appealed to fathers to look after their families even if they are maimed by the landmines.
He said AVSI would initiate income-generating activities for the mine victims.
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