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, and those orphaned by parental deaths from AIDS.
Schools involved with Unified for UNIFAT include Sycamore High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), Eastern High School (New Jersey), Moeller High School, Mount Notre Dame High School, Anderson High School, Wyoming High School, St. Ursula High School, Ursuline Academy, Purcell Marian High School, Loveland High School, Ohio, The Seven Hills School, Mariemont High School and Madeira High School, and others from the Greater Cincinnati Area.
For More Information of the War in Uganda visit, Invisible Children.