The document summarizes a report on the conflict in northern Uganda and proposes a relief project called BOSCO Uganda Relief Project. It finds that the rate of violent deaths in northern Uganda is three times higher than in Iraq, with over 25,000 children abducted and 95% of the population living in poverty. The project aims to provide communications networks between IDP camps and the outside world to help coordinate aid and advocacy efforts and increase international attention on the crisis.

1. Breaking the Silence: The BOSCO Uganda Relief Project www.bosco-uganda.org

6. BOSCO was born in response to the destitution of over two million people, currently living in these IDP camps in the Gulu, Kitgum, and Pader provinces of Northern Uganda. They exist in utter squalor - deprivation of food, of health care, of education - all those things we take for granted.

7. One of the worst, and most dangerous, features of camp life is the radical isolation. Isolation from each other and the outside world.

9. UN High Commissioner Jan Egland recently deemed the situation in Northern Uganda to be “ The world’s most forgotten humanitarian disaster ”. Providing a communications network to the forgotten of Uganda will end their isolation from the rest of the world, and help them to rebuild their society. Allowing this situation to continue, and worsen, is unthinkable.

13. Let’s take a look at Uganda’s geography, IDP camp locations & density, and the BOSCO Uganda Relief Project’s proposal to “put a face” to this heretofore invisible tragedy, and to it’s solution: Provide communication, coordination, and safety to the northern Ugandan millions.

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