More than 3,000 people of Ugandan heritage, expelled from Tanzania last year, are receiving ongoing help from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency office in Uganda.

ADRA Uganda is supplying household items to the 820 families who have been resettled permanently in the Kamwege district. The German Foreign Ministry and ADRA’s office in Germany allocated funds for this phase of the resettlement project.

Frank Teeuwen, bureau chief for disaster preparedness and response at ADRA International, says he is pleased that ADRA is one of the organizations providing “much-needed stability and hope for these people who are starting a new community.”

When the families were first sent back to Uganda in early 2001, they camped in a temporary site. Many of these families had settled in Tanzania as far back as the 1930s, and they had no homes in Uganda to which they could return. Early this year ADRA Uganda joined the taskforce dealing with the resettlement plan. This group helped the families relocate to the sparsely populated Kamwege district, which they are now making their home.