Welcome to Katine

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    Katine: sickness and sustainability

    We are currently focusing on the marginalised across the sub-county. Here, Anne Perkins meets Dominic Ecou and his wife Deborah Aluko, whose son has suffered an undiagnosed illness since he was two, resulting in regular seizures. Samuel's parents cannot afford drugs that might help control his condition

    • Marginalisation in Uganda: an introduction
    • A portrait of old age in Katine
    • Soroti's rehabilitation centre for disabled children
    • Katine's disabled people: in their own words
    • Read our Katine blogs
    • Uganda today: all you need to know about the country

• • About the Katine project

    The Guardian is tracking Amref's three-year development project, in partnership with Barclays, to improve the lives of the 25,000 people in Katine sub-county in Uganda. We'll explain where donations go, how aid works, and how lives are changed

  • Chronic sickness in Katine: one family's story

    Continuing our marginalisation theme, Anne Perkins meets Rose Ebigu, whose son has an undiagnosed illness that often requires hospitalisation

  • More villages to get safe water

    Amref is now protecting existing wells across the sub-county, in areas where the need is most acute, reports Richard M Kavuma from Katine

  • Katine starts livelihoods forum

    A coalition of 20 NGOs and government agencies, including Amref and Farm-Africa, have formed to create a livelihoods forum in Katine

  • Katine farmers plant cassava

    Following a two-day training course earlier this month, Katine farmers are now planting new types of cassava

• Issues

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    Marginalisation

    Anne Perkins explores the sections of Katine society that have become marginalised, due to issues such as old age, disability or chronic sickness

  • Law and order in Katine

    When a crime is committed in Katine, it is not necessarily the police who investigate. Richard M Kavuma talks to village leaders and the authorities to see how they deal with crime

• • Katine: getting every child into school

    Richard M Kavuma was present as Amref held a meeting designed to convince parents how important it is that their children receive a decent education

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  • Uganda today

    Read our background pieces on water, health, education, livelihoods and governance in Uganda