A team from the Irene Gleeson Foundation in Uganda prayers in-front of bibles, transistor radios set to be distributed to 1000 families in Kitgum and Lamwo district. COURTESY PHOTO.
With support from Daystar Television Network, the Irene Gleeson Foundation (IGF) is set to freely distribute one thousand Bibles (1000) in the northern region of Uganda.
Mr John Paul Kiffasi, the executive director of IGF announced on Friday that aside Bibles, the Christian-based charity organisation will also distribute 1,000 free Transistor Radios.
“These radios will… enhance community education and increase access to information on prevention of the pandemic, considering that majority of our population rely on FM Radio for all their information,” Mr John Paul Kiffasi said.
The bibles are in the Acholi language, and will be distributed to families majorly in Kitgum and Lamwo district. The two districts shelter majorly the Acholi, a luo nilotic group also found partly in the eastern part of South Sudan.
According to the population census of 2014 Uganda has approx. 1,500,000 Acholi speaking people.
The Bible Society of Uganda earlier reported that the northern part of Uganda has suffered war in the past and “the Bible has contributed as a point of reconciliation.”
The Irene Gleeson Foundation has helped thousands of vulnerable children in Uganda attain an education.
