More Pictures from the Agoro IDP Camp

I have so many pictures from Agoro that I want to share with all of you! I decided to add a few more since the internet was relatively fast today and because I don't have energy to do much else.


This is a me with a bunch of children from the Agoro IDP camp. There were so many children. Most of them weren't clothed well and were hungry, but they love to follow around the white person and shout, "Munu! Munu!" ("White person, white person") where ever you go.

This isn't the best picture ever, but it was one of my few successful from-the-hip shots. (You normally cause an uproar if you hold the camera to your face, so it is generally better to take pictures without looking so people don't know you are taking them. It is surprisingly difficult to take a good picture without looking).

While we were in Agoro the government sprayers came from the "Control Malaria" campaign. They didn't use DDT, because it is hazardous to humans and the environment, so they used a less effective substitute. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to get rid of any mosquitoes or any other bugs. Hmmmm. Does the term, "Waste of millions of dollars" come to mind?

This is a picture of Logan and Drew playing soccer with the teenage boys in the camp. (At half time they brought the ball to the center of the field and talked about HIV/AIDS). Behind the field is what I call "Agoro Hill." Logan and Drew insisted on calling it "Agoro Mountain." It only took us an hour and a half to climb up and down the Hill/Mountain. After my experience of a 6 hour climb up the mountain in Tanzania, I said that the mound of dirt was only classified as a hill. The people in the Agoro Camp said that they don't like the hill because that is how the LRA would come to attack the town and the camp.

Logan, Drew and I climbed Agoro Hill/Mountain and took pictures of the camp and surrounding area. This is a picture of Agoro town. (There are buildings made of brick which is the "town").

Here is a picture of Agoro Camp from Agoro Hill/Mountain. The little mud huts seemed to go on forever.

The World Food Programme Trucks distributing food aid. The World Food Programme comes the each IDP camp once a month and distributes food. Everyone in the camp (about 10,000 people) comes and registers and then they are organized in groups of 6 or 7 families and given bags to divide among themselves. A World Food Programme Officer came up and asked me why I was taking pictures. I guess he was worried that I might write something and make WFP look bad. However, making WFP look bad isn't that hard to do since they have cut food rations by 40% this month due to budget constraints and people are starving.




Here is a picture of people dividing their food aid and carrying it away. I got in trouble for taking this picture too, but no one asked me to delete the photo so I decided it was OK to put on the blog. There were so many people. Apparently the WFP beans come from Uganda, the WFP oil comes from the United States, the maize comes from some country in Europe, and I don't remember which country the rice comes from. We ate World Food Programme rice and beans for almost every meal during our stay in Agoro.