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There has been a pronounced uptick in violence against women in Serere since June.  Is it because women now have a somewhere to turn for HELP?  Is it because of the extensive awareness WAGRAU has brought to the community about what assault IS?  It’s hard to say. But after two weeks fraught with young women (teenagers) who had been assaulted (and in two cases left for dead) WAGRAU has swung into action. As heart wrenching as our work is, woven throughout, is HOPE. Each and every step we take chips away at societal norms that have left this type of blatant violence unchecked and un-prosecuted. ...

Deborah facilitates a Women’s Empowerment Group in Serere, Uganda. Deborah Akello is a force.  If you get her speaking on the subject of marginalized Women and Girls, you’ll feel like pulling up a podium and finding an audience. She’s passionate, brilliant, articulate and determined. Deborah graduated 8th in her class from Ugandan Christian University Law School, a private university in Kampala, through a sponsorship program called Village2Village. While Deborah is from a remote rural village, and grew up in poverty, her peers at university were the children of government officials, and leaders at large NGO’s. To this day they don’t...

As seen in some of the pictures below, we train under various tree shades shifting by the direction of the tree shade. We stay near the road and so all the dust from the passing cars and motorcycles is inhaled by us but most importantly by the babies that are as young as one month old that the young skilling mothers come with. The babies are asleep beside their mothers because we don't have a nursery or the capability to rent one. Secondly, we run the very first and only abuse shelter where in we mostly have teenage mothers who...