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Entebbe Kakiri Capital: Kampala Area: 237,000 km² Population: 21,1 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Bantu tribes (e.g. the Baganda, Basogo, Bunyoro, and Acholi), Pygmies, Europeans, Asians, and Arabs Official language(s): English and Swahili Religion(s): Roman Catholic (33%), Protestant (33%), indigenous beliefs (18%), and Muslim (16%) Currency: 1 Ugandan shilling = 100 cents Our Facilities SOS-Kinderdorf International started its activities in Uganda in 1988. The SOS Children's Village Kakiri was the first SOS project that was founded in Uganda in a small village named Kakiri. The site in the Luwero Triangle was deliberately chosen because it was this part of Uganda which suffered most from the events of the war in 1985. A short time after completion of the construction works of the SOS Children's Village Kakiri the first orphans moved into their new homes in summer 1991. In the same year the SOS Primary School, the SOS Mother & Child Clinic and the SOS Kindergarten were completed. There has been a high demand for a second SOS Children's Village in Uganda since it has become quite difficult to handle the problem of an increasing number of abandoned children in Uganda. Thus, the idea of constructing a second SOS Children's Village had emerged soon after the first one was finished. The increasing number of abandoned children is due to the rapid dissemination of HIV infections on the one hand and the spread of the cities and dissolution of traditional family patterns on the other. Thanks to its sufficiently developed infrastructure Entebbe, second largest city in the country, was chosen as the construction site of the second SOS Children's Village. This location not only guarantees efficient help to children and youths regarding education and access to the job market but it also helped to carry out the construction of an SOS National Office which has become necessary in order to coordinate SOS efforts in the country. The cornerstone ceremony for the second SOS Children's Village in Entebbe was held in June 2000. Contact: SOS Children's Village of Uganda Trust P.O.Box 27510 Kampala Uganda tel. +256-41 322247-49-50 fax +256-41-322248