Other agencies also help with supplies, health care, sanitation and education. In Koboko, the street splits and a dirt road leads to four camps amid rolling hills and deep green vegetation. The tiny village is 30 miles from the hometown of Idi Amin, Uganda's dictator in the 1970s. Koboko is shoved into the northwest corner of Uganda, near the borders of Sudan and Zaire and accessible by only one road, a dangerous route with military police scouring the countryside for bandits. Pungent smoldering ashes, mixed with the odor of rotting food and feces, result from the controlled burning used to clear the way for more food drops and shelters.
Trees become huts and firewood.
People in Camp 1 sit, talking, looking bored. Children walk hand in hand. A woman cooks sorghum in a large iron skillet over an open fire. Nearby, someone is digging latrines. It has been difficult to get enough treated water, so people carry tainted water from a nearby creek.