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Rome (Fides Service) - Uganda and its tragedy as well as concrete testimony of initiatives which speak of hope for future, is the subject of a Meeting organised by the Piero e Lucille Corti Onlus Foundation and Rome’s City Council for 5 November at 4pm at the Campidoglio in Rome. For more than twenty years the people of Northern Uganda have been ravaged by the violence of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels led by Joseph Kony, a fanatic religious leader who heads this movement. Civilians are oppressed not only by violence but also diseases such as AIDS and Ebola. The meeting intends to call attention to the desperate situation of the people at length neglected and also to offer a message of hope with some positive examples. One of these is St. Mary’s Hospital in Lacor, which is also a training college. In 45 years, the Hospital, with its all Ugandan staff of doctors and nurses, has regularly improved its structures and service reaching a considerable high number of patients: in the last fifteen years it has treated about 2,500,000. The meeting will be an opportunity for the Piero e Lucille Corti Foundation to illustrate the work achieved in St. Mary’s Hospital in Lacor, which it supports thanks to funds collected throughout Italy. For more information see: ufficiostampa.bossi@koinetica.net - tel. 02 6691621 (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 5/11/2004; Righe 18 - Parole 232)
