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Lira was once nicknamed “the jewel of the north” but is struggling to recover from one of Africa’s longest-running civil wars.
Years of war left the land abandoned, and since most of the population work as subsistence farmers, cultivating the ground for crops is a difficult task. Poverty is rife, money for education is nonexistent and HIV/AIDS is rapidly spreading.
Uganda has seen an unprecedented success in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In 1994, Samaritan's Purse launched a comprehensive program to help strengthen the Christian response to the pandemic and reduce the prevalence rate by mobilizing private, church, corporate, and government resources. We continue to provide educational training to church leaders, enabling them to bring unconditional love and hope to those who are suffering. Samaritan's Purse also is involved in community development, livestock and children's programs, and has provided food and other services for hundreds of thousands displaced by violence in the northern part of the country.
More than 1.5 million Ugandans were displaced and lived in camps from 1996 to 2005. The camp conditions were associated with poor sanitary facilities, disease and malnutrition among women and children (WFP 2004). In urban settings of Lira, food insecurity was particularly noted to be problematic as access to humanitarian assistance and income generation activities were often minimal. Women who managed to find employment to earn money for food were found to suffer from discrimination, harassment and exploitation by their employers or fellow employees and would be paid far below market wages because of their uncertain legal status (FEWS NET, 2005). 'Factors influencing the nutritional status of women of reproductive age in IDP camp - Lira District (2010). Click on the link to read the report.