Ugandan Oxygen posted 17 03 06

It may seem like a world apart to many, but for Local Christian Youthwork Charity Oxygen, young people in Uganda and Kingston have become connected in during 2006.

Over the course of the last 10 months Oxygen has been host to Grace Aciro, a young lady from Gulu, Northern Uganda who has been a youthworker involved in many of Oxygen’s programmes amongst young people. When Grace comes to return home to Uganda at the end of the year she will not be doing it on her own but will be doing with Nadine, Adam and Laura, three of Oxygen’s other youthworkers who will spend up to a month working in her home town.

During the team’s time in Uganda they will spend time working with some of the children and young people who are threatened with nightly abduction and subsequent brainwashing into becoming child soldiers by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. To avoid such abduction each night thousands of children and young people flock to communal shelters where they are sheltered, thereby reducing the chance of capture.

To raise awareness of the plight of these children and young people and to help raise funds to support the work in Uganda, the team will be spending 48 sponsored hours locked in the Oxygen centre at St Peters Norbiton. During this time they will be kept apart from all outside influences and spend time praying and writing letters to the young people they will meet.

Anyone wishing to make a contribution to the work in Uganda should contact the Oxygen office on 020 8547 0566 or email info@oxygen-online.org

Introduction to Oxygen

Oxygen was established in 2001 by 20 churches across the Borough who came together with the support of the local youth service and other youth work providers to establish much needed work that aimed to serve and build relationships with the young people of the Royal Borough of Kingston.

For more information on the Lord’s resistance Army, Child Abductions and the Breaking the Silence Campaign visit: www.cms-uk.org

Posted by @ 10:22 17th March 2006