Dear friends,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank and welcome you and to invite you to join the family of Friends of Northern Uganda (FONU).

FONU is a not-for profit limited company devoted to humanitarian work in Northern Uganda working in partnersip with the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative, the United Nations Association of Uganda and others in their efforts of searching for a non-violent end to the civil war which has created an increasing crisis in northern Uganda for 20 years. FONU was formed by individuals from the United Kingdom with links in Uganda and abroad to highlight this forgotten tragedy in Northern Uganda as well as providing creation of partnership links between local and international organisations who wishes to work in the area, conducting advocacy to raise public awareness and training especially to the 1.7 million displaced persons.

Facts:

• The conflict in Northern Uganda has lasted for 20 years so far
• 500,000 people, many of them children, have been killed in Africa's longest-running war
• 1.7 million people have been forcefully driven by the Government of Uganda into "so called Internally Displaced Persons [IDP] camps"
• 1,000 deaths occur every week in these squalid, unsanitary and unplanned camps as a result of the this Government action
• The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has kidnapped almost 27,000 children in this conflict and has forced them to become sex slaves or frontline soldiers through a process of abject terror
• The United Nations' Security Council has passed no resolutions against the heinous practices contrary to it's direct obligations and responsibilities in relation to the UN's 1948 Convention against genocide

Please take a little time to consider our Aims & Objectives, our Vision, our Goal and our Mission Statement.

If you would like to make a donation then please visit our Help Us page.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully

Aldo Okot

Chair Person