Kitgum by The Dreams
**** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 **** 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE READY. LOAD"KITGUM /DRM",8,1: SEARCHING FOR KITGUM /DRM LOADING READY. RUN - NIE WIEDER KRIEG (NEVER AGAIN WAR), 2000 - LUEGE & WAHRHEIT (LIE & TRUTH), 2001 - BLUMEN FUER HELDEN (FLOWERS FOR HEROES), 2002 - - ELCOME TO A PRODUCTION WHICH IS DEDICATED TO OUR GRAPHICIAN AND GOOD FRIEND - T IS MEANT AS A WISH FOR GOOD LUCK AND TO SHOW HIM SUPPORT FROM THE WHOLE GROUP. - S YOU CAN SEE BY THESE PICTURES, PEACE IS A REALLY SERIOUS ISSUE FOR - O, BEING A MEDICAL ASSISTANT, HE SOMEWHEN DECIDED TO TAKE ACTION AND APPLIED TO 'MEDICINES SANS FRONTIERES (MSF)'. - HIS IS AN ORGANIZATION PROVIDING MEDICAL CARE IN REGIONS OF POVERTY AND WAR. AFTER SOME PREPARATIONS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND ADDITIONAL TRAININGS, HE WAS FINALLY ACCEPTED. - INCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR, HE HAS WAITED FOR A PHONE CALL TELLING HIM WHICH PROJECT HE WAS ASSIGNED TO. - INALLY, A FEW DAYS AGO, - INJA) GOT AN EMAIL FROM HIM, SAYING THAT HE WILL BE LEAVING NEXT WEEK. - E WILL BE GOING TO - ITGUM, NORTHERN UGANDA, MOST PROBABLY FOR ONE YEAR. - DID NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT A CONFLICT IN - GANDA BEFORE, BUT NOW - GATHERED INFORMATION, OF COURSE. - LLOW ME TO QUOTE PARTS OF A TEXT FROM THE MSF-WEBSITE TO GIVE YOU AN IMPRESSION. - [QUOTE STARTS] - - IDING CIVILIANS TARGETED BY WAR. - OR MORE THAN 19 YEARS, CIVILIANS LIVING IN NORTHERN - GANDA HAVE FACED MASSIVE VIOLENCE INFLICTED BY LOCAL INSURGENTS AS WELL AS BY THE NATIONAL ARMY. - RUTAL ATTACKS, CARRIED OUT IN COUNTLESS VILLAGES, HAVE LED TO THE DISPLACEMENT OF MUCH OF THE RURAL POPULATION IN THE DISTRICTS OF - ADER, AS WELL AS IN THE MANY CAMPS SET UP TO SHELTER THEM. - N 2003, THE CRISIS ESCALATED FURTHER, BRINGING THE WAR TO - ESO - REGIONS PREVIOUSLY UNAFFECTED BY THE VIOLENCE. - OME 1.6 MILLION PEOPLE - OR 80 PERCENT OF THE REGION'S POPULATION - HAS BEEN FORCED TO FLEE, AND THE NORTHERN - GANDA ECONOMY IS IN TATTERS. - CATTERED OVER MORE THAN 150 SITES, DISPLACED PEOPLE TRY TO SURVIVE BY DOING SMALL JOBS, CULTIVATING PIECES OF LAND AROUND THE CAMP SITES, OR ENGAGING IN SMALL-SCALE TRADING IN NEARBY VILLAGES. - HOSE WITHOUT THESE SOURCES OF INCOME ARE COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS FROM RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS. - N MANY AREAS, HEALTH STAFF HAVE FLED, LEAVING THE LOCAL AND DISPLACED POPULATION WITHOUT FUNCTIONING HEALTH FACILITIES. - T IS NO SURPRISE THAT MALNUTRITION LEVELS ARE HIGH - ABOVE EMERGENCY THRESHOLDS IN SOME LOCATIONS - AND THAT PEOPLE ARE WEAKENED AND VULNERABLE TO DISEASE. - INCE LATE 2003, - HAS BEEN PROVIDING SEVERAL OF THE CAMPS WITH BASIC MEDICAL CARE, CLEAN DRINKING WATER, LATRINES, AND THERAPEUTIC FEEDING FOR SEVERELY MALNOURISHED CHILDREN. - HE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE TO THE VIOLENCE HAS BEEN SLUGGISH, WITH FEW OFFICIALS ACKNOWLEDGING THE VAST SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM, AND THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH HAS BEEN SLOW TO DEPLOY STAFF TO ASSIST OVERBURDENED REGIONAL HOSPITALS AND HEALTH CENTERS. - MEASLES-VACCINATION CAMPAIGN PROPOSED IN - CTOBER 2003 FOR THE TOWN OF - OROTI, WHERE 100,000 DISPLACED PEOPLE HAVE GATHERED, WAS DELAYED BY THE GOVERNMENT'S LACK OF COOPERATION. - S A RESULT, AN EPIDEMIC CLAIMED MANY LIVES AMONG THE DISPLACED POPULATION. - HE REGION CONTINUES TO SUFFER FROM FOOD SHORTAGES BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOT ABLE TO FARM, AND - ROGRAM FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS HOVER AROUND 50 PERCENT OF THE DAILY REQUIREMENTS. - HE REASON: AUTHORITIES WANT CIVILIANS TO RETURN TO THEIR OWN VILLAGES AND BEGIN FARMING AGAIN AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE TO RELIEVE OVERBURDENED PUBLIC SERVICES. - NDERSTANDABLY, CIVILIANS HAVE REFUSED TO RETURN, KNOWING THAT DOING SO WILL EXPOSE THEM TO MORE KILLINGS, RAPE AND KIDNAPPINGS. - OREOVER, THE FIGHTING FACTIONS DO NOT WAIT FOR PEOPLE TO RETURN. - HE REBELS ATTACK CAMPS AND ABDUCT YOUNG CHILDREN TO SWELL THEIR RANKS. - NCE CAPTURED, THE CHILDREN ARE TERRORIZED INTO COOPERATING. - HOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED OVER THE YEARS, AND TENS OF THOUSANDS MORE FEAR STAYING IN THEIR HOMES AT NIGHT AS A RESULT. - NSTEAD, EVERY EVENING THEY WALK TO MAJOR TOWNS SUCH AS - ITGUM TO SPEND THE NIGHT THERE. - ATIONS ESTIMATES THAT APPROXIMATELY 50,000 CHILDREN MAKE THIS 'COMMUTE' EACH NIGHT. - OPENED A RECEPTION CENTER IN THE TOWN OF - ULU OFFERING SOME OF THEM SHELTER AFTER DARK. [...] - GANDA SINCE 1982. - OURCE: WWW.MSF.ORG - [QUOTE ENDS] - AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF: LEAVING THE SECURE SURROUNDINGS OF GERMANY TO HELP PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED. MAKING TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES, NOT JUST BECAUSE OF ANOTHER CULTURE, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THE PERMANENT DANGER OF BEING THREATENED. - HAVE MUCH RESPECT FOR BUGJAM AND HIS ATTITUDE. HIS CONSEQUENCE TOUCHED ME, AND I THINK IT WILL HAVE SOME IMPACT ABOUT MY FUTURE DECISIONS AS WELL. - WISH BUGJAM ALL THE BEST AND HOPE HE WILL RETURN SAFELY. I AM SURE HE WILL BE AN ESTEEMED PERSON IN KITGUM. GOOD LUCK, BUGJAM. YOU ROCK! -
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