This is an African story of God’s amazing grace. Northern Uganda has been at war for twenty years. Those most affected, a tribal people known as the Acholi, or Luo people, endure rape, torture, and child abduction. Thousands have died. Others are missing. Two million people are displaced. Most live in squalid camps for internally displaced persons, protected by government soldiers they often fear more than the rebels. Despite all this, the Acholi are united in the belief that the only real solution t

This is an African story of God’s amazing grace. Northern Uganda has been at war for twenty years. Those most affected, a tribal people known as the Acholi, or Luo people, endure rape, torture, and child abduction. Thousands have died. Others are missing. Two million people are displaced. Most live in squalid camps for internally displaced persons, protected by government soldiers they often fear more than the rebels. Despite all this, the Acholi are united in the belief that the only real solution to the

Orphaned Children playing at the village

This is a clip featuring music that I have composed and donated to the human rights organization Witness. “Two decades of armed conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government in the Northern Uganda, has caused some nearly two million civilians to be displaced from their homes. Ordered into so-called protected camps, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) face heightened insecurity, appalling living conditions and the lack the means of subsistence. Abuses against these communi

A school/community in Northern Uganda that focuses on rehabilitating ex child soldiers and sex slaves abducted by the Lords Resistance Army. One aspect of the school involves using Art as a means of expression to allow the pupils to exorcise and heal the harrowing ordeals of their past.

This chilling feature, shot by WITNESS partner Jimmie Briggs, tells the story of Acholi school girls from St. Mary's College in Northern Uganda who were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army to serve as child soldiers. Of the 250,000 child soldiers worldwide, many are used as sexual servants, spies, porters and frontline grunts. These unwilling combatants often find themselves subject to disease, physical assault and rape. Witness interviews one of the girls who escaped and survived the ordeal, and a teach

This is an African story of God's amazing grace. Northern Uganda is at war. Those most affected, the Acholi people, endure rape, torture and child abduction. Thousands have died, others are missing. Despite all this, the Acholi people are ready to forgive. http://www.elca.org

Uganda Rising | Film Synopsis For two decades, the Acholi people of Northern Uganda have been caught in a civil war between a rebel group whose main objective is inhumane terror and a government whose military response has often increased misery and suffering. Over one and a half million people have been displaced into camps and over 25,000 children have been abducted to be used as soldiers and sex slaves. And yet through it all, every day across Acholi-land something remarkable happens. Against a bac

Civil war in Northern Uganda has left a wake of devastation for the people of Gulu. This 20 year conflict between Joseph Kony's LRA and the government has seen over 30,000 children abducted and forced to serve as soldiers, or given as sex slaves in his rogue army. Innocent children are turned into killing machines against their own families and communities. As peace talks are underway, Project Gulu will unfold. KPC, the home of Watoto, will plant a church, which will in turn give rise to Watoto Gulu. P