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Uganda is located in Eastern Africa, west of Kenya.
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population: 31.4 million, with a growth rate of 3.6% a year, the 5th highest rate in the world. 50% of the population is under 15 years old—the highest in the world. Uganda has the third highest birth rate in the world.The average Ugandan woman has 6.8 children, the third highest fertility rate in the world.
size: 93,065 square miles
health: The life expectancy of the average Ugandan is 52.34 years. 4.1% of the population has HIV/AIDS—530,000 people. 1 million Ugandan children have been orphaned due to AIDS. Uganda also has the highest case rate of malaria infection in the world, and the 4th highest rate of death from malaria. 40% of Ugandans do not have access to clean water. 23% o fUgandan children suffer from malnutrition.
economy: 35% of Ugandans live in poverty.
culture: 42% of Ugandans are Catholic, 42% are Protestant, and 12% are Muslim.
last updated 6/5/08 sources |
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Kampala, Uganda—Issue 27
In a Muslim-against-Muslim conflict that has killed thousands of unarmed villagers and children in Darfur, Sudan, many people have fled from their native land and their ...
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Fellowship of Suffering—Issue 25
“The children’s horror always began at night — being abducted from their homes, many of them forced to kill their own family members,” related Pastor Ken Graves, his normally deep, booming voice ...
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Help to the Fatherless—Issue 25
Steven Curtis Chapman kneels in front of 16-year-old Killiam James and slowly shares through a translator the words of the song he’s about to play. “What can wash away my ...
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Pleading Their Cause—Issue 25
Since God first called Kerry Hasenbalg to fulfill His command in James 1:27, to “visit orphans and widows in their trouble”—not only has she visited them, she has brought their plight before those who can ...
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Uganda—Issue 10
Despite the lack of running water, electricity, or phone service, Saving Grace Children’s Village compound is a place of peace in northern Uganda. That tranquility was shattered ...
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Uganda—Issue 7
Refugees from the horrors of Islamic terror in Sudan can find Saving Grace in the middle of their refugee camp in Uganda.
A group of missionaries from Calvary Chapel Saving Grace in Yorba Linda, California, in cooperation ...
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