HELP SWEET SLEEP RESETTLE ORPHANS IN NORTHERN UGANDA
In mid-2008, the people of northern Uganda began to see peace in their land for the first time in 22 years. During the war, the government of Uganda placed nearly 2 million Ugandans in IDP camps (Internally Displaced People) where they lived in terrible conditions. All of that has begun to change as northern Ugandans have finally been allowed to return to their villages after two decades.
Hundreds of thousands of children in this region have lost their parents and grandparents to war and disease. These children have continued facing a dangerous life in IDP camps and need to be helped in order to return to their home villages and claim their family land.
More than 450 children were given beds, mosquito nets and Bibles this past Christmas. Sweet Sleep is committed to continue to help the orphaned children of northern Uganda find hope in their opportunities for fresh new lives.
To do this, we are providing mats, beds, nets, malaria education and Bibles through our partnerships with three organizations: the Child Protection Office of Gulu, the American Refugee Committee and World Vision’s Children of War Rehabilitation Program. Each of our partner organizations is working to resettle these children into their appropriate tribal village. In doing so, each child will receive a “resettlement kit” which includes items like a basin, a water jug, hygiene items, seeds and farming tools and bedding. Sweet Sleep will provide for the bedding needs of each of these kits to ensure that each child will receive the hope and love that is offered in the tangible form of mats, mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets and Bibles.
Seven hundred children will be resettled over the next six months.
A bed for a resettlement kit is just $88. To help Sweet Sleep provide these resettlement kits, please donate.
