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Uganda: Sweden Helps Kid Mothers
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New Vision (Kampala)
14 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
Chris Ocowun
Kampala
WITH more than sh2b from the Swedish International Development Agency, Save the Children is giving psychosocial and financial support to 6,500 former LRA child mothers and war-affected youth in the north.
The child protection programme officer, Jessica Etyang, on Monday said the programme would end in 2009.
She was speaking during the training of Amuru and Pader district peace teams at Acholi Inn in Gulu.
"We are trying to instill the cultural norms of Acholi back into the minds of the youths who came back from the bush. We are giving them training in income-generating activities, management, counselling and how to look after themselves," she said.
Etyang added that they had given the child mothers and youth revolving funds for petty trade, paper ornaments and grinding mills to earn a decent living.
"These are income-generating activities, which they identified themselves," she stated.
Etyang added that they were supporting more than 500 former LRA child mothers with their babies.
They are training the leaders of the district peace teams to be able to work for peace and settle the increasing land disputes which are frustrating returns.
Some elders asked Save the Children to organise exchange visits to other districts to share experiences.
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The elders appealed to the Swedish agency to help in rehabilitating the cultural institutions and their infrastructure and strengthen them to enable them solve community problems, such as poverty, land disputes and domestic violence.
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