UNIFAT
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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 overall…
Unified for UNIFAT is a Greater Cincinnati High School based support group for UNIFAT, which helps spread awareness, and helps fund UNIFAT through events, sales, and fundraisers. Schools involved Include Moeller High School, Mount Notre Dame High School, Kings High School, Mason High School, Purcell Marian High School, Sycamore High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), Loveland High School, Ohio, and Madeira High School, and others from the Greater Cincinnati Area.
