IDP Camp

Next James took us a little farther down an extremely bumpy dirt road to an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) Camp. Up until a year ago there were 3,000 people living at this camp. There were 14 IDP Camps created in Gulu District alone. The largest one in Gulu had 10,000 people living in it! There's a very small percentage of people still living at the IDP camps. Typically you'll find the elderly, disable, or those who have nowhere else to go still living there. These camps were started about 20 years ago so some of the kids have known this place as their home all of their lives! He told us the poeple were forced to come and live at these camps because it meant that they would be protected by the UPDF (Ugandan Army). The World Food Program would bring food to all of these people since they had no land to harvest.

This was a sign out front of the IDP camp. James told us it was a reminder to those who were returning home to be careful because there could be land mines on their property.