My Life in Africa: By Hellen Akot.

My names are Hellen Akot . I was born on in 1960 from Alokolun in Omoro - Gulu district.

I am responsible married woman with 05 children 02 are girls and 03 are boys.
I am a catholic by religion and all my family members are catholicsand all of us in the familty fear and respect God and we dont miss prayers every Sundays.

I stopped in P3 in 1973 and my husband stopped in junior one level of education. To my supprise, our children rae going beyond the level that we stopped in and they are all very bright and they are impressing us.

Nowadays I am a peasant farmer and do some small scale farming activities her to support our living. I have lived in the disaster (conflict) region for the last 20 years since 1986 and I have seen all the side effects of war.
It has displaced me and the family and nowadays we are renting with in town, which is very costly let alone the hardships in getting the money.

I like having a good friendly relationship and social life. I hate death, conflict, poverty and illiteracy. I generally appreaciate being my self for there is no way we can change that and we can not run away from reality.

I was extremely excited to hear about LIA and and their nice programmes. Their programes has made a great change in my life since its inception and I gladly believe that It will continue to help us so much in the future.