About Ugandan camps
The people of Northern Uganda have suffered from two decades of bloody civil war and neglect, costing tens of thousands of lives and forcing around 1.6 million people to flee their homes and move into cramped and squalid IDP camps that lack even clean water.
Children and young people are the primary victims. One half of those displaced are under the age of 15, and more than a third of the boys and one-sixth of the girls bear the scars of forced soldiering and sexual slavery in Northern Uganda.
Around 1,000 people die each week as a result of camp conditions. The United Nations calls this situation one of the world's worst humanitarian catastrophes.