According to a 2005 study carried out by the UNDP and the Ugandan Government on the status of IDPs in
Northern Uganda, illiteracy among women peaked at 84%; while only 9% of men and 1% of women have completed secondary school. Only one in every 150 youths has access to tertiary education.
Due to income insecurity, intermittent schooling is a common phenomenon in Northern Uganda: young people drop out of school to find casual work to pay for classes. This affected the quality of learning, and decreased the chances of completing a course of study for many. Displace youths lack formal educational classroom and materials and often they had to rely on an average of a monthly income of about US $ 3.50, to survive, some have shown a certain degree of entrepreneurship, and other have managed to start a small inf
ormal income generated businesses, like kiosks, tailoring, and brick-making activities.
Almost 50 per cent of the camp’s population is under the age of 18. These young people have spent all their lives hanging around in the dirt and overcrowded paths of the makeshift camps, sitting in front of the huts their parents hurriedly built for shelter, playing and drinking all day long.
It is estimated that more than 1.6 million people have been displaced in the northern Acholi districts (Kitgum, Gulu, Pader), and the majority of these still live in the overcrowded, poorly serviced IDP camps that have been created. Recently the government has forced the closure of various camps in an effort to emphasize their confidence in the current peace negotiations and ceasefire agreement, and the head of state going to
be hosted in Uganda.
However, the poverty of the local economy have not been able to sustain an infinite number of these small, casual and low-capital and income generated businesses. In a market with an infinite supply of unskilled workers and a very restricted demand for services, the profitability of informal activities is very low - so low that they cannot ensure subsistence.
Many youths are now resigned to their situation. They have musical skills and talents that needed to be tap and exploited. When Dr. Phoebe Abe worked with these group the result was magnificent, despite their scare resources and opportunities many tried to sustained them with meager activities and income generated enterprise to bring them where they are.
Myel Acholi - Larakaraka2 All Photos were taken by dennis ojwee
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