The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) members are survivors of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) civil war fought for over 20 years in northern Uganda. During the war, they were kidnapped and forced to be child brides and child soldiers. Decades later they are still traumatized by their war memories. To help heal, the women survivors bonded together and decided to record their war memories and stories on a large cloth using paper beads. Stitch by stitch and bead by bead they captured their war memories and stories on the cloth. The women are also receiving ASA Social Fund microloans.
Thanks to a 2018 grant from Jewish Helping Hands, ASA was able to purchase and install a rain harvesting tank and system for the Bright Kids Uganda school.