A Voice for the Voiceless – my volunteer journey
Posted by Guest Contributor in Real Life on 18. Nov, 2009 | 2 Comments
Rebecca-Anne Fowler
www.freeuganda.au.com
June 2007 I started working at a new job. Within a few weeks of my starting there, my boss gave me a DVD called Invisible Children Rough Cut. Not sure what I was watching, that night I eagerly popped the DVD on and what started as a light and airy documentary had me in [...]
The plight of Women & Children in Northern Uganda
Posted by Guest Contributor in Uncategorized on 15. Sep, 2009 | 4 Comments
Not many know, but northern Uganda has been terrorised by war since approx 1986, those most affected by this war are the Acholi women and children.
In 1994 the Museveni Government of Uganda, forced the Acholi people out of their villages and into displacement camps, in what they say were camps designed to protect the Acholi [...]
