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A cross-maker's story Metric interjects, “I never cried when they were beating her.” Philda Oyet, 30, is one of the ‘Kitgum cross-makers’, who have been producing these symbols fo solidarity to be distributed by CMS in the UK. She and her six children share a home with four other families in the grounds of Kitgum’s diocesan headquarters. Her husband, Martin, continues his work as a catechist in Labuje internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp and visits the family in the evenings. The older children go to school in the camp, some kilometres away. The family came here in May 2003 from their home in Obem Pamolo, around six miles from Kitgum town. They left their village because they feared that the rebels would abduct the children. The rebels had come to their village many times – each time the family would run into the bush, but Philda was caught twice with her youngest children, as they could not run as fast. The family stayed in Labuje IDP camp for a while when they first came to Kitgum, but they did not settle there because they feared that there too the children would be vulnerable – when they heard that rebels were close, they came to ask shelter from the diocese. Philda still sends her children to town to sleep, even though there are army men around. She fears that if the compound were attacked, the army men would run away. Philda wishes that the family could have
a home where there is a wide place with lots of space, and that
her children would be healthy, unlike they are in camps. However,
to her, security is the most important thing.
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