New Vision (Kampala)August 25, 2003
Posted to the web August 25, 2003 Kampala CHRISTIANS from various churches in Tororo, Busia, and Mbale districts recently donated food and clothing to the suffering people displaced by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Teso and northern Uganda, writes Abraham Odeke.
Bishop Girado Olukol, the leader of the Pentecostal Outreach Church Ministries in Uganda, appealed to all believers in Tororo, Mbale, Busia and Western Kenya to assist the IDPs.
Olukol secured beans, millet, maize and cassava flour for the displaced.He also donated second-hand clothes, cooking utensils and edible oil."I could not just sit and watch Christians in Teso and northern Uganda going without food and clothing," Olukol said.
Earlier, the Christians of the St. Jude Catholic Church in Malaba town responded to a similar appeal by their parish priest and sent donations to the emergency relief coordinating office at the diocesan headquarters in Mbale.
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