What is life like for children in Uganda on a day-to-day basis?
Children are combatants in Uganda. Children who are not involved in the fighting are frightened to death of being captured or abused. Any time there is conflict, education is interrupted. The military are huge conveyers of HIV/Aids. When they go back home, it’s a major carrier of the disease. I forget the number of orphans in Uganda but it’s in the hundreds of thousands. So the impact of all of these issues on children is extraordinary. With major operations in Darfur, Chad, northern Uganda and southern Africa, what are the biggest challenges you’re facing in each of these situations to get food to the people who need it most? Obviously, the first challenge is to have support from the international community to pay for it. We try to buy as much food as we possibly can locally. One of the good stories this year is that we have now purchased about 80,000 tons of food in Zambia. This is a place we were providing food just a year or two ago, so this a success story. Our challenge is to hav
