DIOCESE OF NORTHERN UGANDA

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DIOCESE OF NORTHERN UGANDA

• The Diocese of Northern Uganda Family Tree of
  Bishops
• leading to the Formation of the present diocese
• On the 24th June 1885, James Hannington was
  consecrated the first Bishop for the Diocese of
  Eastern Equatorial Africa (an area covering
  Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania). He was martyred by
  Kabaka Mwanga as he approached Uganda on the
  Northern shores of the great lake on 29th October
  1885.
• In 1897 the Diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa
  was divided into the dioceses of Uganda and
  Mombasa. Alfred Tucker chose to continue as
  Bishop of Uganda.
• In 1926, the Diocese of the Upper Nile was
  created. This covered the areas north and east of
  the Nile in Uganda (Called the Elgon Mission) and
  large part of Southern Sudan (Called the Gordon
  Memorial Sudan Mission)
• In 1961 The Diocese of the Upper Nile was
  subdivided into the Diocese of Mbale, Soroti, and
  Northern Uganda.

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Departments within the DNU

• Finance and Administration
• Planning and Development
• Education
• Health
• Mission and Evangelism

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Bishops DNU

• Bishop J. K. Russell First Bishop of Northern
  Uganda 1961-1964
• Archbishop S. Wani 1964-1969
• Archbishop Janani Luwum 1969-1974
• Bishop Benoni Ogwal-Abwang 1974-1989
• Bishop Gideon Oboma 1989-1998
• Bishop Nelson Onono-Onweng 1998 to date

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Major Activities of DNUThe Church has to remain
relevant even in a war situation.

• Social Mobilization Of Women Affected by Conflict
  (SMOWAC)
• Heifer Project International (HPI)
• Development Activities project (DAP)
• Office of Foreign Assistance for Disaster (OFDA)
• Women Development Center- Tailoring School
• Christ Church Girls Hostel
• Scholarship programme (KWAN Foundation)
• Health
• Archbishop Janani Luwum Theological College
• Gulu Night Mentoring Program
• Information Unit
• Peace work-talking to the rebels

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1. Social Mobilization Of Women Affected by
Conflict (SMOWAC)

• The SMOWAC project was started in 2004 and has
  two components the business management and the
  food security component. Under the business
  component, women are trained to run small-scale
  business to generate income for their families.
• The food security component is by far the
  biggest. Here, women are trained on good farm
  practices, are supplied with seed and cuttings,
  farm tools like hoes, oxen and ox-plough. So far,
  6,500 women farmers have benefited from this
  project

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2. Heifer Project (HP)

• This Project is run in Partnership with Heifer
  Project International. Households are provided
  with heifers to help meet the familys
  nutritional needs and supplement income from milk
  sale. 300 household, mostly in the urban suburb
  have benefited

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3. Development Activities project - Food Security

• DAP was started in 2001. Its main focus is food
  security, with emphasis on crops. The project
  supports farmers to grow high-yielding varieties
  of cassava, groundnuts, simsim, maize, and cow
  peace. so far 4,850 have benefited and most of
  them women.
• Provision of Oxen to all the parishes of the
  Diocese.

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4. Office of Foreign Assistance for Disaster
(OFDA)

• Agricultural recovery in support of the war
  affected households in Northern Uganda.
• In the first season, OFDA served 5,400 households
  with seed vouchers worth 198,100,000 Million
  Uganda shillings
• The target for the second season is 2975
  households with 35,000 Uganda Shillings per
  household.
• The highly qualified staff carry out training of
  farmers in modern agronomic practices

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5. Women Development Center- Tailoring School

• Former abductees and child mothers are taught
  tailoring, home economics and adult literacy
  education
• Girls Hostel
• Girls from the Displaced Schools of Koch Goma and
  Keyo Secondary school are being provided with
  quality accommodation that is safe, relatively
  cheap and close to their school.

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6. Christ Church Girls Hostel

• This accommodates female students from all over
  Northern Uganda displaced by the war
• Secure and conducive environment for study

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7. Health

• The Diocese has 7 Health Centres
• In partnership with MAP DNU has trained nursing
  assistance and posted them in the health units.
• Counselling services being provided
• Antenatal care

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8. Scholarship programme(KWAN Foundation)

• KWAN Foundation is a local scholarship program
  initiated by the Board of Education of the
  Diocese of Northern Uganda to provide a five year
  free education to war affected children as a way
  of stabilizing the community devastated by the war

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9. Archbishop Janani Luwum Theological College.

• The college offers diploma and certificate
  programs in Theology and it is an affiliate to
  Uganda Christian University, Mukono
• There is plan to diversify the training to
  include other discipline
• It has trained 90 of the clergy in the Diocese

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10. Gulu Night Mentoring Program

• This project is located within Christ Church
  Primary School in Gulu Municipality. The aim of
  the programme is to educate and nurture from the
  displaced and vulnerable children in the
  war-ravaged region of Northern Uganda future
  leaders of the community and the country. The
  target is 240 pupils admitted each year. These
  pupils are coached and mentored to excel in the
  primary Leaving Examination so that they join the
  best performing secondary schools in the country

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11. Information Unit

• This is the mouthpiece of the Diocese
• Information gathering and dissemination
• Training of Community Information team
• Linking with other media houses
• Lobby and advocacy
• Documentation of activities (Video, Audio)

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For more information contact us atDiocese of
Northern Uganda

• Mican 3km Juba Road P.O Box 232 Gulu Uganda
• Telephone [phone]
• www.dioceseofnorthernuganda.blogspot.com
• email dnu_at_utlonline.co.ug
• or akenawilly_at_yahoo.co.uk
• or openypam_at_yahoo.com