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Childcare agencies working with former captives of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in war-ravaged northern Uganda are getting overwhelmed by the increasing number of children rescued or escaping from rebel captivity, a relief worker said. Michael Oruni, the coordinator of a programme run by the Christian charity, World Vision, to rehabilitate and reintegrate former child captives into society in the northern region, said the capacity of the childcare centres had been stretched thin.