KareMeKuc Uganda 2017

We are a team of three from Lewis & Clark College preparing for a 100 Projects for Peace project in northern Uganda. After two years of research and direct collaboration in the Lira community, we plan to return to Uganda this summer with funding to implement an agricultural vocational training program to improve long-term child soldier rehabilitation efforts in northern Uganda. We need your support to supplement our grant funding and to make this project possible.

Your contributions will support a generation that has missed out on both formal and traditional education due to armed conflict and regional displacement. While this generation is now the most vulnerable, we believe future peace depends on them. This summer, we will use agricultural vocational training and education in nutrition, small business practices, and conflict resolution to empower this generation towards peaceful self-reliance. Our project will draw on resources available to these young adults, encouraging a return to traditional ways of life while promoting economic empowerment for families and villages. 

It is our mission to combine the Western privilege of access to resources with local Ugandan knowledge and ideas. Ultimately, our project will initiate a new program with Children of Peace Uganda (CPU) that will contribute to our shared vision to provide psychosocial trauma counseling, vocational education, and leadership training to hundreds of children affected by war.

Thank you for your support!

Please go to our website and contact us to learn more.