While we were sleeping
*For 19 years, while we've been growing up safely in North America, the children of Northern Uganda have been fleeing for their lives to escape the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
*As many as 30,000 children have been abducted by the LRA and forced to serve as soldiers, laborers and sex slaves.
*To escape LRA abduction, every night as many as 40,000 children walk for several hours away from their homes just to sleep in larger centres.
*Approximately 139 people die every day in this region.
*1.7 million people in the region have been forcibly displaced, living in refugee camps in deplorable conditions.
As for me, I've never been afraid to sleep in my own home, never feared abduction, never known that crying will lead to certain death, never been forced to kill. For me, what these children are going through is completely incomprehensible.
Lets do something about it.
www.invisiblechildren.com
https://www.worldvision.org/Worldvision/guest.nsf/nochild_soldiers?OpenForm
President Yoweri Museveni
President's Office
Parliament Building
P. O. Box 7168
Kampala, Uganda
Rick Casson (MP)
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Casson.R@parl.gc.ca
casson@rickcasson.com
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
pm@pm.gc.ca
Joyce Fairbairn
The Senate of Canada
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A4
Peter Mackay
Minister of Foreign Affairs
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Mackay.P@parl.gc.ca
*As many as 30,000 children have been abducted by the LRA and forced to serve as soldiers, laborers and sex slaves.
*To escape LRA abduction, every night as many as 40,000 children walk for several hours away from their homes just to sleep in larger centres.
*Approximately 139 people die every day in this region.
*1.7 million people in the region have been forcibly displaced, living in refugee camps in deplorable conditions.
As for me, I've never been afraid to sleep in my own home, never feared abduction, never known that crying will lead to certain death, never been forced to kill. For me, what these children are going through is completely incomprehensible.
Lets do something about it.
www.invisiblechildren.com
https://www.worldvision.org/Worldvision/guest.nsf/nochild_soldiers?OpenForm
President Yoweri Museveni
President's Office
Parliament Building
P. O. Box 7168
Kampala, Uganda
Rick Casson (MP)
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Casson.R@parl.gc.ca
casson@rickcasson.com
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
pm@pm.gc.ca
Joyce Fairbairn
The Senate of Canada
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A4
Peter Mackay
Minister of Foreign Affairs
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Mackay.P@parl.gc.ca
posted by Jessi at
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2 Comments:
thanks jess for the awareness. it really is incredible the lives people have in different parts of the world.
yeah, thanks. We just have no idea really, eh?
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