US lauds Ugandan
A Ugandan woman, Angelina Atyam, has been recognised as a heroine for assisting child victims of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the north.
By Milton Olupot and Agencies
A Ugandan woman, Angelina Atyam, has been recognised as a heroine for assisting child victims of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the north.
She was recognised in the US State department’s 2005 Trafficking in Persons report annou-nced on Friday by Secretary of State condoleezza Rice (above).
Atyam co-founded the Concerned Parents’ Association (CPA) in 1996 after Joseph Kony’s LRA abducted her 14-year-old daughter from Aboke Girls’ School.
CPA provides psychosocial services and other assistance to victims who have suffered LRA atrocities, including rape, mutilation, forced labour and soldiering. Other individuals recognised were from Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Malawi.
A Ugandan woman, Angelina Atyam, has been recognised as a heroine for assisting child victims of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the north.
She was recognised in the US State department’s 2005 Trafficking in Persons report annou-nced on Friday by Secretary of State condoleezza Rice (above).
Atyam co-founded the Concerned Parents’ Association (CPA) in 1996 after Joseph Kony’s LRA abducted her 14-year-old daughter from Aboke Girls’ School.
CPA provides psychosocial services and other assistance to victims who have suffered LRA atrocities, including rape, mutilation, forced labour and soldiering. Other individuals recognised were from Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Malawi.