• Kennedy Ojok (17) recovering after being abducted by The Lord\'s Resistance Army.
  • Kennedy Ojok (17) & Christopher Orach (20) are comforted by councellor Idah Laguu Lumoro after escaping from the LRA. They receive councelling after being traumatised by their experience in which they were forced to loot and kill.<br/><br/>
  • Kennedy Ojok (17) has his feet treated after being forced to hike long distances without footware carrying heavy loads looted after raiding villagers. Anyone not able to keep up are killed.<br/>
  • Formally abducted children are encouraged to draw what is on their mind as part of the rehabillitation process. When they first arrive almost all draw pictures depicting death and torture.<br/>
  • Jennifer Ajok (20) was abducted in 1996 aged 14. When she was taken she had to beat to death another girl and was forced to fight in both Uganda and Sudan. She was given as a \'wife\' to two separate LRA officers and had a child by each.
  • Formally abducted boys dance to Congolese music at Gulu Support The Children Organisation (GUSCO) in Gulu town. GUSCO with World Vision are the only two support centres for abducted children and regulary receive over 150 new arrivals every week.
  • A formally abducted boy dances to Congolese music at GUSCO in Gulu town. They use dance as a form of rehabilitation during their one month recovery period there.
  • Irene Treive (14) & Jackliei Larkli (16) are traumatised by the experience of being abducted by the LRA. Girls are also forced to fight and loot but they are also given as \'wifes\' to LRA commanders. Many have children and are stigmatised by the community on their return.
  • Children say prayers after escaping from the LRA. Religion is used as a way of accepting what has happened to them.
  • After one month in the centres, children are re-united with their families. They are given letters explaining who they are and what they have been through to try and sensitise the community.<br/>
  • Every night thousands of children flock to the safety of the protected compound in Lacor Hospital in Gulu. Many abductions have taken place in this district and many children have slept here since birth.<br/>
  • Children sleep in any available space in Lacor hospital. Up to 20,000 children sleep here when the LRA are known to be in the area. Many children walk for over 2hrs each day to get to safety.
  • Denis Nyeko (14) recovers from gunshot wounds to his legs. He had been forced to fight with the LRA for two years after being abducted and was shot by the UPDF during an ambush.
  • Travel in northern Uganda is highly dangerous with vehicles being regulary ambushed. World Food Program convoys are protected by 3 Ugandan army fighting vehicles and over 80 heavily armed soldiers.
  • Some camps are unreachable because of the dangers despite the protection. The convoy is regulary fired upon and land mines laid with one WFP driver killed in an ambush earlier this year.<br/>
  • Annaka IDP camp home to over 25,000. They were moved to these camps when the UPDF started operation Iron Fist. There are an estimated 800,000 or half the Acholi population living in these camps.
  • WFP distributing food to the densly populated IDP camp in Annaka home to over 25,000. There are an estimated 800,000 or half the Acholi population living in camps in northern Uganda.
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