Unified for UNIFAT

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Unified for UNIFAT is an organization dedicated to helping the children of Uganda, especially the students served by UNIFAT or the Upper Nile Institute For Appropriate Technology. Unified For Unifat is the affiliation of Cincinnati high school students that works directly with the non-profit Friends of UNIFAT.

UNIFAT itself is an elementary school in Gulu, Uganda, started by Abitimo Odongkara in 1986. Its name is an acronym that 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…

Schools involved with Unified for UNIFAT 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.