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From insecurity to employment - helping northern Uganda recover from conflict
Dennis is one of 4,000 young people trained by the UK-supported Northern Uganda Youth Development Centre in the past year. Having completed a one year catering course, he is now working in the kitchen of the Florida Hotel, in central Gulu.
The hotel sits just a few metres away from the church where, a few years ago, Dennis would take refuge each night, because his home on the ourskirts of Gulu was not safe from the Lords Resistance Army. The LRA waged a 20-year-long campaign of violence in northern Uganda, before being driven out of the country in 2006.
"I want to thank Britain for helping people here who have suffered, and for helping them to pursue a better life," he says.
Picture: Pete Lewis/Department for International Development
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From insecurity to employment - helping northern Uganda recover from conflict
Dennis is one of 4,000 young people trained by the UK-supported Northern Uganda Youth Development Centre in the past year. Having completed a one year catering course, he is now working in the kitchen of the Florida Hotel, in central Gulu.
The hotel sits just a few metres away from the church where, a few years ago, Dennis would take refuge each night, because his home on the ourskirts of Gulu was not safe from the Lords Resistance Army. The LRA waged a 20-year-long campaign of violence in northern Uganda, before being driven out of the country in 2006.
"I want to thank Britain for helping people here who have suffered, and for helping them to pursue a better life," he says.
Picture: Pete Lewis/Department for International Development
Terms of use
This image is posted under a Creative Commons - Attribution Licence, in accordance with the Open Government Licence. You are free to embed, download or otherwise re-use it, as long as you credit the source as 'Department for International Development/Pete Lewis'.