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Darryl R Demille Ins Agcy Ltd Darryl Demille CFP Oakville 905-842-1020 www.darryldemille.com Stacey Sutherland Oakville 905-339-3276 www.insuranceinoakville.com Andrew Heideman Oakville 905-829-0018 www.andrewheideman.ca Stephen Ostapchuk Mississauga 905-238-5643 www.stephenostapchuk.ca Angelo Gualtieri Oakville 905-257-7773 www.angelogualtieri.com Daniel Durst Oakville 905-847-1898 www.danieldurst.com Deborah E. Bartucci Oakville 905-337-3276 www.deborahbartucci.ca RE-ELECT MARY CHAPIN Town Councillor Ward 3 For the benefits of EXPERIENCE and COMMITMENT ELECT MARY CHAPIN X CONGRATULATIONS OAKVILLE!! Huge thanks to all C4CA volunteers, to the Mayor and Council, and MPP Flynn for the cancellation of the Power Plant. What an accomplishment in making Oakville more LIVABLE! Time now, to ensure wise re-use of the vacated school sites, hospital property, and the Mid-town Core. Community facilities, public open space, and clean knowledge-based employment are needed and so is YOUR input. Implement Strategic Action Plan for Downtown keep it vibrant and viable. Protect and Enhance Heritage Resources and Tree Canopy. Phone: 90 9 Friday , O ctober 22, 2010 O A KVILLE BEA V ER w w w .o akvillebeaver .co m By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF They have experienced horrors almost beyond comprehension and in many cases have done things just as terrible. The Gulu District of northern Uganda is home to thousands of former child soldiers who were abducted from their homes and forced to fight and kill for a rebel army in what has become Africas longest running armed conflict. Today these children are trying to move on with their lives and H2O 4All, an Oakville based non-profit organization, is giving them the means to do just that. Tim Muttoo, the co-founder of H20 4All, and a group of volunteers departed Canada on Sunday, and journeyed to the Gulu Watoto Childcare Rehabilitation Village in Northern Uganda. The village, which was only built about a year and a half ago, is currently home to between 300 and 400 former child soldiers and the children of women who were abducted and raped by the rebel group known as the Lords Resistance Army. All the children present in the village are between the ages of four and 18. The Ugandan charity Watoto Childcare Ministries is hoping to increase the number of children receiving rehabilitative treat- ment in this village to between 1,000 and 1,500, but to do this it needs a stable supply of clean drinking water. This is where H20 4All comes in. We went there last year to figure out a way to bring them more water because the government of Uganda restricts the build- ing of villages for humanitarian and rehabil- itative purposes if you dont have water to give to the children, said Muttoo, shortly before returning to Uganda. We are going to take a spring from a local stream and we are going to filter it and were going to treat it and were going to bring it to drinking quality standards by using no chemicals. We do it in a very spe- cific way that H20 4All does through tech- nology that has been engineered by Genieye Systems of Oakville. Muttoo said H20 4All succeeded in rais- ing $20,000 to pay for the establishment of this water treatment system, which when complete will provide the village with 10,000 litres of clean drinking water every- day. Providing safe haven for childhood soldiers SUPPLIED PHOTO HELPING HANDS: Tim Muttoo (centre), the co-founder of H20 4All is surrounded by volunteers and a group of former northern Uganda child sol- diers living in the Watoto Childcare Rehabilitation Village. See Stable page 10