Childcare Kitgum Servants

Childcare Kitgum Servants was founded in 1988 by Irene Gleeson when she visited Africa and was concerned at the plight of children in war-torn northern Uganda. In 1991 she sold her Sydney, Australia beachside home, founded CHILDCARE Kitgum Servants (CKS) and waved a teary goodbye to her 4 children and grandchildren. She towed her caravan to the war zone of Kitgum of North Uganda, gathered 50 war traumatised children under a mango tree and began to teach and feed them.

Today, Childcare Kitgum Servants services and care includes:

• 10,000 children are given FULL DAY CARE / SCHOOLING / MEDICINE & FEEDING in 5 CKS schools.
• Medical and malnourished feeding clinic
• Gloryland Junction AIDS hospice & infant orphanage
• Community Churches
• FM Radio Station
• Cultural Arts Studio
• Water bores

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Invisible Children

Another company that is making difference for child soldiers today is Invisible Children.

"We use the power of media to inspire young people to help end the longest running war in Africa. Our model has proven effective, and hundreds of thousands of people have been called to action through our films and the volunteers that tour them."


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Project AK-47

"Project: AK-47 is engaged in a multitude of projects in both hemispheres. We work hard to bring you as much up-to-date information about our efforts freeing child soldiers as possible, as well as what you can do to help. We are, however, working in regions where conflicts rage and information on children and projects is often highly sensitive."

-ProjectAK47.com

Book about memories of a Child Solider

"In A LONG WAY GONE: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story: At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and, finally, to heal."

-ALongWayGone.com

The book has sold over 600,000 copies since its release in 2007.  The story has shown many the atrocities of child soldiers.