Have you ever wept for a whole country? I have. And I seem to be doing it more these days.
God has certainly given me a heart for Uganda and for the Acholi people who face so many hardships. This is the latest blow.


April 5th, 2007
UN World Food Program Cuts Food Rations for 1.5 Million Displaced in Northern Uganda
Constrained by lack of funds, the UN World Food Programme this week said it would be forced to cut by half food rations for nearly 1.5 million displaced people and refugees in Uganda.

"Until we have sufficient funds to buy food locally, we will be forced from 1 April to reduce by half the amount of maize and beans that we give to each displaced and refugee family," WFP Country Director Tesema Negash said.

"If we don't cut them by 50 percent in the next few weeks, the relief operation would grind to a halt in May."

Though more than 230,000 displaced people returned home in northern Uganda in 2006 with WFP assistance, 1.28 million still remain trapped in squalid camps in the northern districts of Amuru, Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, unable to provide sufficient food for their families.


How can we live in such luxury? When will we learn that your world should not be so different?
How many more people must starve to death before we take action?