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- TITLE OF CAMPAIGN Life in Africa - postwar Family Transition Center in Northern Uganda
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- CHOOSE URL http://StartSomeGood.com/lifeinafrica
- START DATE: 15 April 2014
- END DATE: 23 May 2014
- CURRENCY$ USD-US Dollars
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- SUMMARY: Support famiies displaced by Northern Uganda's war in moving back home to rebuild their lives, their culture and their communities.
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Why this matters
Outside of Uganda’s capital Kampala, where the eastern border of the city blurs into messy suburban sprawl, a rocky hill has offered 25 years of refuge to 10,000 of the people who fled Joseph Kony’s rebel war in Acholiland, about 400 kilometers to the North. Known locally as the Acholi Quarter, Kireka hill is also home to one of the city’s largest stone quarries, which offers low paid and back-breaking employment to hundreds of traumatized hillside residents.
Twenty five years ago, the local king of the Buganda tribe offered Kireka hill to the Acholi people who were fleeing from the north for as long as they needed a safe place to stay. Since the rebel attacks stopped seven years ago, the people here have been trying to figure out how to scrape together enough resources to move their families home. In mid 2013, Acholi Quarter residents were informed that the hill they are living on has been sold for commercial development. Though going home is what they have dreamed of, that hope is now infused with the very real fear that these fragile families will once again be forcibly displaced. In recent months there has been some unrest…. it’s really time to go home.
Once a week, 35 women who live in the Acholi Quarter gather at the small Life in Africa (LiA) community center near the bottom of the hill. They bring in products made from paper beads to fill orders from abroad and to sell at their small community shop. They learn and practice new skills like sewing together, they save small weekly amounts of money together, and they support each other through life’s challenges.
More than anything these days, the LiA ladies plan together for the very complex and expensive challenge of rebuilding their destroyed homes and farms in the empty countryside 400 km away, so they can finally move their families back
The Family Transition Center Plan
The plan they’ve developed represents these women’s collective vision for how they can best support each other through their individual transitions (with as little interruption of their children’s education as possible), and contribute as a group to rebuilding their post-war community and culture. The plan includes 3 main phased objectives:
- Construct a centrally located transition center that offers a temporary home-base in the North, from which the 35 women can help each other rebuild and prepare their family homes (most have land already, but they'll need to plant food and build homes for their families to arrive to when they move).
- Support the actual resettlement of their 35 families
- Serve the local community in the North with skills and talents that the Life in Africa group’s members and global allies have to offer.
Once the Family Transition Center is constructed, some of the LiA group’s friends and allies from around the world are onboard with a longer term intent to support the Family Transition Center’s development into a local community education and transition support hub. For example:
- The community at Edgeryders.eu has committed to working with the Family Transition Center to host trials of Hi-Lo technology, potentially including solar appliances, biochar stoves, permaculture, mesh networks, hexayurt relief housing, etc
- As part of the Ashoka Globalizer program, the founder of Naireeta Services has committed to bringing new irrigation techniques for demonstration at the center, which are working well for Indian farmers in similar arid areas
- Ci2i Global is committed to hosting a Learn/Share Lab for Co-creative Impact and Innovation at the new center, which will invite practitioners in co-creative impact and innovation from around the world to share knowledge with the local Kitgum community on nurturing community designed and driven solutions to local challenges.
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