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  • The School of Restoration

  • The Story of One Ugandan Woman Who Has Given Hope to Hundreds of Female Survivors of War and Violence
  • By: Philippa Tyndale, Alice Achan
  • Narrated by: Ratidzo Mambo
  • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

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The School of Restoration

By: Philippa Tyndale, Alice Achan
Narrated by: Ratidzo Mambo
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Summary

The powerful and uplifting story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female victims of war and violence.

Alice Achan was just 13 when the Lord's Resistance Army first terrorised her village in Northern Uganda in 1987. She spent five years on the run from the brutal LRA and then cared for her young nieces after their mother died of AIDS, losing them one by one to the disease. Their deaths plunged her into depression, which only began to lift after she took in an unexpected guest: a pregnant teenage girl, kidnapped and assaulted by the LRA, who had escaped captivity with her toddler.

Spurred on by her young friend's plight, Alice began to house and nurture survivors of the sexual violence that was a trademark of the LRA's 20-year campaign. Out of this rose the Pader Girls Academy, which Alice saw as a 'School of Restoration'. It has helped hundreds of girls, many left with babies and HIV as a result of their enslavement.

Alice recognised the humanity and potential in these girl mothers, who had been rejected or were trapped in their villages without hope.

©2020 Philippa Tyndale & Alice Achan (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
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