Centre for Child Soldiers in Uganda | 23
August 23, 2009 by Andy
Filed under Prayer Bulletin
International Christian charity Jubilee Action has announced the opening of a new centre to rehabilitate child soldiers in northern Uganda. More than 25,000 children were abducted by the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army and forced to become child soldiers and sex slaves. A precarious peace is in place today, but many survivors remain badly traumatised.
In response to the need, Jubilee Action is planning to build a new youth centre in Patongo, a town in the war-ravaged Pader district of northern Uganda and home to some 10,000 internally displaced people, mainly children. According to the charity, some 49 per cent of the people in Pader district were abducted by the LRA, and 85 per cent had a family member who was killed.
The youth centre will provide counselling to children who were abducted and workshops to help the community accept former child soldiers back into their midst. It will also provide education to help the children catch up the years of lost schooling. The charity said on its website: “These children face serious challenges living with the daily trauma of what they have been through.”
Source: Christian Today
BIBLE STUDY: Psalm 72:1-7
PRAISE: God for this initiative. Pray for the severely traumatised children and their families, that they may find real healing through the love of Christ.
