Support Survivor Leaders
Jane Ekayu & Rebekka Akol
Children of Peace Uganda is a non-profit organization based in Lira, Northern Uganda, dedicated to the well-being and empowerment of former child soldiers, children born of captivity, and children orphaned by the two decades of armed conflict in northern Uganda (1968-2006).
Rebekka said: “Working with the very people that also suffered like me, when I joined this organization working with them, seeing the smiles on the faces of mothers, children abducted and orphans, I looked at the meaning of my suffering, even if I underwent rehabilitation and counseling, but when I started working with these people, their lives changing is what gave me the strong healing in my life. It made me forget much about what happened to me in the bush, though sometimes it comes back as memory but it will not hurt me again as it used to hurt me, because I see there is a meaning for life.”
Children & Youth for Peace & Justice
Support CYPJ's programs
Jane and Rebekka are keen to start a community based program to support survivor mothers especially, but all other women too. The plan is to provide early childcare support to struggling mothers, in terms of nutrition, emotional-social-cognitive development, healing abuse and trauma, as well as domestic violence, and other needs. We will recruit and train women from the community, to find and support and mentor mothers in their communities.
Elizabeth Alyano
Elizabeth founded the grassroots non-profit organisation Center for Women and Children’s Rehabilitation (CEWOCHR). she works with survivors of the war and their children born in captivity or after the war who are now facing many challenges and problems.
One of the major problems is that these women were often shunned and rejected by their families and now they have no home and no land. Their children born of war, do not know who their fathers are and so they have no identity and cannot access basic state resources.