Livelihood
No.1 support to alleviate poverty is agriculture livelihood. Economics greatly affect a Survivor’s physical and psychological health, and negative economic situations make socio economic reintegration very difficult. Therefore, deterrents to recovery for resilient Survivors with Disabilities having strong family and peer support are lack of economic and employment opportunities and lack of access to health and education.
With a limp this amputee and his son use ox-plough to cultivate land...
Survivors implore the government to critically evaluate the victim assistance clause enshrined in the International Mine Ban Treaty, which they are told obligates the State to look kindly on survivors’ affairs. The northern Uganda rehabilitation programme massive as it sounded did not even follow up on survivors to establish their line of thoughts concerning their predicament. For those who can walk with a limp using prosthesis, have resorted to the traditional peasant farming like other family members in order to make ends meet.
“There are so many adults who can rear animals, cultivate land for agriculture and run own businesses amongst survivors but lack capital. We are grateful for the rehabilitation that government and its partners have given us hope to continue living but most survivors are really the poorest of the poor. The No.1 support to alleviate poverty is agriculture livelihood as experience seems to collaborate food security and income by farmers practicing. Why can’t government for once distinguish between a person with disability and us amputees who were victims of the war”, lamented a survivor!
