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A YEAR AND a half ago, Bidi Bidi in Northern Uganda was a small settlement made up of mostly bush land.
Now it’s home to over 280,000 people – most of whom are fleeing civil war in South Sudan, just over the border, making it the largest official refugee settlement in the world.
TheJournal.ie was invited by aid agency Trócaire to visit the sprawling camp.
For many who live there, hopes of returning home are fading. Instead, they’re training in new skills and trades, so they can better take care of their families.
David MutaMuta, a former laboratory technician in South Sudan before he fled to Uganda, is currently learning farming through training initiatives and is fostering four children along with his mother.
“At the start it was not easy,” he says about learning farming and adjusting to life in the settlement. But he said it was better to work to provide for his family than simply rely on the beans and flour given out by the UN.
Though he would like to go back and continue his lab work (which centers around curing diseases) he says:
“In life you have options. If A fails you try B. If that’s not so good you try C.”
We’ll be running more reports from our visit to Uganda in the coming weeks.
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40 foot swimmers jeez they’re tall
@Alison Maguire: The Nephilim are back! . . . And this time, their pissed.
@Alison Maguire: Brilliant comment. .. You’re very quick..
Time to have all boats carrying a registration number like the US
Otherwise the rules are a waste of time
No accountability for reckless use of water crafts
Jet skis are particularly dangerous and many clowns own one
What do the coastguard do, issue a set of regulations . These rich kids owners of those crafts should be charged with endangerment to swimmers.
@Just Me: only if they are rich? Or was that a redundant adjective?
@Just Me: eh it was Conor McGregor not some rich kid.
That place is Notorious….
@Brian O’Faolain: those responsible obviously liked the may weather
@Ian Ó Grèachaín: Don’t think many will get that.
@….: who da fook is that guy?
@Ian Ó Grèachaín: there’s been a floyd of complaints
@….: I get it!
Foreign nationals on jet skis we get them from time to time in Tramore no idea of any rules or regulations.ps get pc about my comment we watch them launch their jet skis from pier
@Gerard Heery: I won’t get PC about your comment, but some punctuation wouldn’t go amiss.
@Gerard Heery: it was Conor McGregor, unless you consider Tallaght foreign!
@Neal Ireland Hello.: Will you have a word with Brian MacCartaigh please
@Ian Murphy: Is he not from Crumlin? Bleeding tallafornians trying to claim
Everyone as theirs
@Neal Ireland Hello.: It’s computer predictive text sometimes changes after I post don’t know y
And the would of got away with it, if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.
Kirsty MacColl was decapitated be a death , sorry, jet ski. These idiots should be seriously penalized for endangering lives.
Spoilt brats on their power toys with no respect for others. Typical establishment behaviour
@Roger Clarke: it was Conor McGregor, so you’re right about the spoilt brat bit
@Sam Harms: was it really???
@Deborah Behan: yep lovin dublin had an article about it
@Roger Clarke: one things for sure Conor’s not part of the establishment
A, the forty foot, brings back memories albeit the only thing that raised alarm back in the day was old fellas crinkly dangly bits on full view
You should be allowed shoot Jet Ski riders.
@William Grogan: with a blunderbuss to ensure maximum spread
Drug dealers
Gobmight’s Ted
If the yellow marker marks a swimming zone and they are on the far side of the marker what’s the problem?
@David Hanks: scratch that. Just had a look at the chart and that bouy is about 200m from shore so they were too close
Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig says it beautifully in “Ode to a jet ski person” https://www.google.ie/amp/s/homepaddock.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/ode-to-a-jet-ski-person/amp/
The only thing I took from that was the weather was so nice you could go swimming in the sea and now I want to cry.
That’s all we need boy racers in the sea, spoilt lowlifes knew they were in the wrong
This is not national news
Bloody fools!
Surely the time rules are arse ways?
@Derek Brian Griffin Cooper: why do you think that? It’s to accommodate swimming hours, it’s also a massive ocean and there’s plenty of other places jet skis etc could go.
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