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All donations to the Action Hero Network are currently being put toward bringing peaceful rest and joyful play to the Acholi tribe in Gulu, Uganda.

Action Heroes are assembling in Uganda to accomplish these missions:

• Freely create and provide light weight cloth hammocks to those sleeping on the ground in displaced persons camps.
• Set-up a room full of sewing machines where locals will continue this hammock making project.
• Create public art projects and play spaces with tightropes, tree-house hammocks and dance hoops.
• Promote the efforts of all action heroes working in Gulu by broadcasting their stories through all forms of media: print, video, online, email, photography exhibitions, and public presentations.

Why Uganda?

UN Humanitarian Affairs & Relief consider the humanitarian crisis in northern Uganda to be among the worst on the planet. The on-going civil war in northern Uganda has displaced 1.6 million people. In a recent statement by Civil Society for Peace in Northern Uganda (CSOPNU), it was reported that 70 percent of the population in northern Uganda have no access to monetary income and 95 percent live in absolute poverty.

According to a random survey of over 2,500 individuals in displaced persons camps by the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Human Rights Center, 40 percent of respondents had been abducted by the rebel LRA (Lord's Resistance Army), 45 percent had witnessed the killing of a family member and 23 percent had been physically mutilated at some point during the conflict.

The LRA is believed to have abducted over 30,000 children since 1986. In addition, as many as 40,000 night commuters, mostly children and women, flee their homes to the safety of towns each night seeking refuge from potential abduction by the LRA. They search for places to sleep in town centers, such as churches and hospitals, and they return to their homes in the morning.

Teaching skills and gathering equipment to create hammocks will not only provide inexpensive portable beds, it will enable the Acholi to create many other useful items such as tents, tarps, blankets, backpacks and clothing. One thousand dollars will buy ten sewing machines. It is a small price for the abundance of basic needs these will manifest.

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