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WORST CITY - Kampala, Uganda |
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Kampala, Uganda
Population:
2.1 million
Worst Feature: Tortures
Best Feature: One of them must be
Emin Pasha Hotel – peace in a noisy city – but book early or you might end
up living on the street.
Uganda is a country of mixed fortunes – you can read how tourists are
flocking to a modern bustling city, and it even looks like that in some
photos. – but look down the page and you will see a warning – Dangerous
Areas – there follows a list of warning about what not to do and where not
to go.
Of course some people, quite a lot of them, actually live in these
‘dangerous areas’. This for many children is where they grow up. They know
nothing else. The city is proud of its university and the medical school,
but look in the hospital next door and you will see something else –
malnutrition. In one recent report they found 315 children in the hospital –
all admitted for some other reason such as pneumonia or diarrhoea, and all
suffering from malnutrition. These are probably the tip of the iceberg –
there are a lot more children in this city of well over a million people.
AIDS is a problem of course , but many of these children were not sufferers
from that - they just weren’t getting enough food.
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Kampala, Uganda - looking good
from the distance |
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. . . but the city has many living in extreme
poverty. |
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These girls were heading out for a night on the town
in Kampala - but couldn't find their skirts. |
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Help children in Uganda with
SOS Children
Although Uganda has now enjoyed more than a decade of relative peace and
stability after twenty years of civil war, it remains one of the poorest
countries in the world and the people continue to suffer from its position
at the centre of an area of violence and ethnic unrest. Health care is poor
and malnutrition, malaria and parasites are common. There is a large
incidence of HIV/AIDS as well as related illnesses like TB and pneumonia.
Less than half the people have access to clean drinking water and life
expectancy is low.
The charity began work on the first Ugandan community in 1989 at Kakiri, a
small market town in the Lowero triangle, 27 km north west of the capital
Kampala. The area was chosen because this part of Uganda suffered most from
the war in 1986 which virtually destroyed the town's infrastructure. SOS
Children's Kakiri community has twelve family houses and three youth houses
where the older children can live in relative autonomy while they take their
first guided steps towards independent lives. The community will be their
home until they are ready and able to support themselves. As well as the
houses, there is a nursery, a school for both primary and secondary pupils
and a medical centre, all of which are used by families in the
neighbourhood.
SOS Children's second site opened in 2003 in Entebbe, the country's second
largest city. It has twelve family houses and a nursery and is home to over
120 children.
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