OMHI: Helping Others
In addition to the orphans, OMHI also helps others in the community who need help, e.g., Norah
Norah and Pastor Joshua
From Pastor Joshua about Norah (July 27, 2025):
"One of the greatest woman I have ever seen on earth."
"Share your prayers with us we have really lost a very great person at church and in the community, (Norah) she has been a role model for everyone at church and at the community Norah is a widow that all her family was killed by the rebels (kony*) she was left alone helpless as OMHI we started supporting her by providing her with food and other basic needs, some time back she fell sick but due to lack of resources we need not able to take her to the hospital to get better treatment, now she's gone and she will be no more.
Yeah, she was such a great person to us, more so to the church where she was leading women as (mothers union) mothers union is a body form my women to discuss and solve ideas faced by women in church.
Yeah, kony* killed alot of people in eastern
Uganda More so in the district of amuria, gulu, kapelebyong.
kindly
share with us your prayers and support may God bless you"
| To honor the life and service of Norah in the village of Omecha, Omecha Ministry Hope Initiative, with the help of a donation, has started a new project "Norah's Plants and Seeds," beginning with Mango Trees being planted within the village. The benefits of this project are expected to help the community for years to come. See the webpage. |
"The pictures I have sent you are from a very near place from our home, where thousands of people were buried, that kony killed and for kony to take off from Uganda it's the civilians from Teso that gathered to ask for the guns from the government to use for fighting kony otherwise kony had almost thrown the government if not by the power of the civilians,
And about 50 meters from where I was standing from is where the biggest grave yard is where they dug a very big hole to bury people that were killed by kony, because the government couldn't bury all those people and besides that most of the Dead bodies were only now the bones which no one could identify"
Pastor Joshua and the "Arrow Boys Monument"
July 2025
* From online sources:
Kony has long been one of Africa's most notorious and most wanted militant warlords.
Joseph Kony is a Ugandan warlord and the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that originated in northern Uganda. Claiming to fight for a government based on the Ten Commandments, Kony led the LRA in a brutal insurgency that targeted civilians as much as military forces. His campaign was marked by mass abductions of children (used as soldiers and sex slaves), mutilations, massacres, and widespread terror.
The Teso sub-region, including Amuria District, lies in eastern Uganda and was significantly affected by LRA activity during the early 2000s, even though it was not the original epicenter of the rebellion. Around 2003, the LRA extended its operations from northern Uganda into eastern regions like Teso, looting villages, displacing thousands, and committing atrocities. The LRA’s invasion of Teso, particularly in Amuria, led to the internal displacement of over 300,000 people, many of whom sought refuge in camps.
A dedicated cemetery near Amuria serves as a memorial to those who died as a result of the LRA’s brutal attacks in the region. This cemetery holds the graves of civilians—many of them women and children—who were killed during the 2003 LRA incursion. It stands as a sobering reminder of the violence and serves as a place of mourning, remembrance, and reflection for the local communities affected by the conflict.
This is also called the Arrow Boys Monument.
The cemetery also holds the largest mass grave in Uganda. Located in Obalanga County, Amuria, it contains the remains of the 265 victims of the 2003 Teso Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attack. Since 2003, Teso leaders have organized annual memorial prayers on June 15 to remember the people who were killed in the attack.
The Arrow Boys were local militia who were mobilized by Teso leaders to drive out the LRA out of the region. They used rudimentary tools like axes, machetes, arrows and bows to defend themselves from the LRA attack. The Arrow Boys were ex-soldiers of the Uganda People's Army (UPA) who had fought against the government in late 1980s and early 1990s, and had been out of action for at least ten years. The ambushing of LRA led to their counterinsurgency. Under the command of Ecweru Musa, the Arrows Boys killed 43 LRA commanders and rescued over 9,000 children captured by the LRA. After the initial attack on 15 June 2003, Obalanga County was heavily affected by the LRA rebels' attack, and was used as the entry point by the LRA rebels in Teso. Many people were killed and others abducted including children, and also property destroyed. Up to 100,000 people were displaced into camps.Though the Ugandan army drove the LRA out of the country by the mid-2000s, the trauma left behind in regions like Amuria and Teso remains. The cemetery near Amuria symbolizes the suffering endured by the people and the resilience of communities working to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of terror.
Link to Norah's
Plants and Seeds
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