Trauma cannot be treated in isolation from the poverty and deprivation that blights northern Uganda. Women are especially vulnerable for cultural reasons.
In 2008 we began to support two local women’s groups’ income-generating projects. Many of the fifty women involved are widows and have HIV/AIDS.
Our volunteer psychotherapists teach lay counsellors to give support to survivors of the notoriously vicious Lord’s Resistance Army in an isolated area in Northern Uganda. We also support and train women’s groups to establish small income generating projects; and teach HIV-AIDS mitigation and family planning with community groups, young people and in prisons.
For more than two decades the extreme Lord’s Resistance Army LRA has terrorised the Acholi people of northern Uganda. The LRA has temporarily moved its bases into neighbouring southern Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic. However, they have left in their wake emotional, physical and economic devastation.
April 2010 Newsletter 