Night Walkers Uganda
Night Walkers Uganda
The night-walkers of Uganda
1. Tltsd ki a mondatokat az albbi szavakkal aid agency warden shelter pregnant slave capture bush rebel hut patrol
1. A ___________ is a small simple house with only one or two rooms. 2. A___________ danger. is a place where people are protected from bad weather or from
3. A ___________ is someone who opposes their government and tries to remove it using force. 4. A ___________ is someone who is responsible for a place and checks that people follow rules. 5. f you ___________ a person! you take him or her prisoner. ". f you ___________ a place! you move regularly around it in order to prevent trouble or crime. #. $he___________ %. An___________ need. is an area in a hot country that is not used for growing food. is an organi&ation that gives money! food or help to people in
'. A ___________ is someone who is forced to do what another person tells them to do and has to work for him or her. 1(. f a woman is ___________! she is going to have a baby.
2. A szveg gyors tfutsa utn vlaszol az albbi k!rd!sekre" 1. )here is *ary Aciro from+ 2. ,ow old is she+ 3. )hat is the -.A+ 4. ,ow many children spend the nights in shelters+ 5. ,ow many people live in shelters+
The night-walkers of Uganda
*ary Aciro lives near the town of -acor in northern /ganda. 0very day! she collects grass to feed the cattle! works in the vegetable patch and helps her mother cook dinner over a fire. And then! 1ust before the sun sets! *ary leaves her family2s tiny hut and walks down a sandy road into -acor. $he adults are going home for dinner on buses. *ary and hundreds of other children are going the other way. $hey are wearing dirty old clothes and flip3flops. 4ome are carrying sacks or rolled3up blankets. $hey are going to night shelters guarded by government troops. n any other country! a mother wouldn2t let her 143year3old daughter leave home for the night. ,ere! the most important thing is to survive. 5)e fear the rebels and violent robbers who come at night to disturb us!6 says *ary as she walks. $here are many problems in Africa but the war in this region is the worst problem of all. t is Africa2s longest civil war. *ary and the other children walk to the shelters every night because they don2t want to be captured by the -ord2s .esistance Army 7-.A8. $he -.A is a religious rebel group that uses children as soldiers! porters and se9ual slaves. $he rebels attack the villagers at night. $hey kill adults and take the children away to camps in the bush. *ary2s 153year3old brother! :eoffrey! was captured by the rebels and he was a prisoner for three months. 5$hey made him carry heavy things. $hey hit him and didn2t give him any food!6 says their mother! Agnes. :eoffrey escaped when a government helicopter attacked the rebel camp he was in. *ary2s neighbour! a girl named ;lorence! was captured too. 4he spent three years with the rebels< she was forced to have se9 and became pregnant. n 2((2! desperate parents in northern /ganda began sending their children=about 4(!((( of them=into nearby towns at night. Aid agencies built shelters to give them a safe place to go. *ary is going to one of these places. )hen she reaches the shelter! it is full of children of all ages. $he shelter is made up of concrete buildings and large white tents. -illian Apiyo! 14! is already inside. 5 come here for protection!6 she says. $he children look sad when they reach the shelter! but soon they become happier. 4ome children begin dancing. At other shelters! they sing songs. $he children are not given anything to eat. $he shelters are already very busy! and if food were given to the children! they would be even busier. Adult wardens patrol with torches. $hey stop fights occasionally and check on children who look frightened or unhappy. 5)hen am here! feel am somebody. )hen am at home! 2m always upset!6 says :abriel >loya! 15! who is responsible for the four younger brothers who walk with him to the shelter. 5*y parents are dead! killed by the rebels!6 he says. ?hildhood is short in rural Africa! but it is even shorter in this society. $he children are alone and they need love. *any of them live with their e9tended family because their parents were killed by the rebels. n the shelter the wardens keep boys and girls apart! but outside its gates young couples are alone in the semi3darkness. $his sort of thing worries *ary2s mother. 5)e can2t follow our children up to the shelter!6 Agnes says. 54ometimes a girl says she has gone there! but she has gone to a boyfriend! and she becomes pregnant and leaves school.6 @ut other things worry her more. $he tribes of northern /ganda were once farmers. $hey lived in small villages and had cattle and fields of mai&e. @ut 1' years of war have destroyed everything. Almost all the population of the north! 1.5 million people! now lives in crowded temporary shelters near the towns. As the war goes on! the situation gets worse. $here is little hope of returning to a normal life. $his is a culture with few written records. )hen their parents are gone! the children2s link with their villages will be lost. )ho will tell the children the boundaries of farmland or the distance to the nearest
stream+ 5;or me! the worst thing that may happen here is a situation where there is no war! but everybody stays in the camps!6 says ;ather ?arlos .odrigue& 4oto! a .oman ?atholic priest who has spent 1% years in /ganda. $he wardens wake up the children before the sun rises. $he children pray and wash. 4ome children roll their blanketsA others call their younger brothers and sisters. $hey leave the shelter and walk to the road. At ' a.m. the sun will be very hot! but now it is gentle. t is a good time to walk home.
#. $ros%tsd a mondatok ele !t !s v!g!t.
1. n northern /ganda 4(!((( children 2. $he rebels attack villages at night and 3. Aid agencies have built shelters to 4. n the shelters wardens walk around to 5. $here are few written records! so older people ". After 1' years of war! it will
a. provide safe places for children. b. pass information on to children. c. leave their home every night. d. keep order and help children who are scared or sad. e. capture children to use them as slaves. f. be very difficult to return to a normal life.
&. $ros%tsd a k!t oszlo' szavait( hogy !rtelmes nyelvi fordulatokat ka' )*ollo+ations, 1. feed 2. look 3. wear 4. carry 5. leave ". build #. become %. cook a. dirty old clothes b. pregnant c. home B school d. shelters e. the cattle f. sacks g. dinner h. sad
-. $re'oz%+i.k 1. *ary lives ____ northern /ganda. 2. *ary2s mother cooks dinner ____ a fire 3. Adults go home ____ dinner on buses. 4. $he shelters are guarded ____ government troops. 5. $he rebels attack the villagers ____ night. ". $he rebels take the children ____ to the camps in the bush. #. $he shelter is full ____ children and teenagers. %. )ardens patrol ____ torches.
/. 0bor1val ka'+solatos ig!k escaped killed destroyed captured attacked
1. :eoffrey was _____________by the rebels. 2. ,e_____________ after three months. 3. A government helicopter _____________the camp. 4. :abriel2s parents were _____________by the rebels. 5. Almost 2( years of war have _____________almost everything in northern /ganda.
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2. Tltsd ki a mondatokat az albbi szavakkal 1. hut 2. shelter 3. rebel 4. warden 5. capture ". patrol #. bush %. aid agency '. slave 1(.pregnant
3. 4laszok 1. northern /ganda 2. 14 3. a rebel group 4. 4(!((( 5. 1.5 million
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