Map of Uganda

Map of Uganda
The Uganda Kampala Mission includes Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi and Southern Sudan. Our assignment covers all the areas except Ethiopia.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Church is providing aid to landslide victims in Uganda

300,000 homeless after landslides
Monday, 8th March, 2010



OVER 300,000 people in the Mount Elgon region and the neighbouring lowlands of Butaleja, Budaka and Tororo districts have been displaced following the landslide that devastated Bududa in eastern Uganda last week, the state minister for relief and disaster preparedness, Musa Ecweru, said yesterday, report Taddeo Bwambale and Cecilia Okoth.

Another 500,000 people from the Rwenzori and Kigezi regions in western Uganda are at risk of landslides and floods, the minister added.

We have had an Emergency response Project approved to supply blankets, tarpaulins, cooking pots and soap to the survivors of the landslide who are now displaced into IDP camps until the rainy season ends in May.


Here we are turning supplies over to Musa Ecweru, Uganda's Minister of State for Emergency response and refugees. This is the sixth Emergency response project we have we have been able to do with The Prime Minister's Office.

This time, we are not allowed to go into the area because of unsafe conditions and the risk of disease as the effort to recover more than 350 bodies continues. The supplies are being taken, by the Army, to the camps being set up for the internally displaced persons (IDPs).


As usual, we would not have been able to collect all the necessary supplies without our assistant and Project Monitor, Ssimbwa Busulwa. He is now heading back to Sudan to finalize the borehole drilling there. We only have 12 more days left on our mission and we will sorely miss our dear friend, Ssimbwa. He is an incredible man with a heart of gold who we deeply love and who never gets tired of doing good. It is impossible for us to measure the impact he has had on the Humanitarian work which is being done in Uganda. Luckily for us, he often travels to the U.S. so it will not be, "Good-bye" when we leave...only, "See you soon".

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It looks, in this picture, that Art is finally catching up with us Silver Gorillas. That is the still the color of the Butler 8th (or no hair at all)

Every missionary will be home by August and the ward is excited to see old friends and perhaps fill up the chapel again.

It has been fun watching your mission.

Mike Davis

"Everything must have a beginning"

"Everything must have a beginning"
Children at an orphanage in Entebbe, Uganda. There are so many children here it is incredible; there are orphans everywhere. The people take them in and it is not unusual to see families struggling with 8-10 children. We talked to a woman yesterday who has taken in twelve children. She said, "sometimes I feel sad that I cannot do more, but everything must have a beginning". We have decided to use that as our personal reminder to guide our actions here as we try to help.