UNIFAT
UNIFAT is an elementary school in Gulu, Uganda, started by Abitimo Odongkara in 1986. Its name stands for Upper Nile Institute for Appropriate Technology.
It provides education for:
- Ethnic minorities forced into internal displacement camps in a brutal civil war.
- Children abducted to become soldiers and sex slaves in a rebel army called the Lord's Resistance Army.
- Citizens terrorized by government and rebel soldiers alike.
- Children walking miles into town to sleep in safety each night.
- The scourge of AIDS