03.05.2010Not far away from the SALEM village in Mbale, only 20 km by air, a terrible tragedy happened on the evening of 1st March 2010 in the Mount Elgon region in the East of Uganda: a massive landslide of mud, soil and rocks came crashing down and buried the whole village underneath. The force took everything in its path and covered it with a layer of mud some 8 metres high. That evening, 350 people lost their lives, 100 of them were children.