My Life in Africa Report by Adong Nighty

I am Adong Nighty 25 years old and single. I was born in Koch Goma, 15 miles from Gulu town. We had to leave my village when my father was killed, unfortunately by the government troops and not the rebels this time, he was on his way back from the town when he met his fate. We then settled near Gulu town near the biggest missionary hospital in Gulu (Lacor hospital).

Life has not been very easy under the single care of my mother with four of us to look after, and we surely couldn't get any proper education given the destituting impacts the war has left on the community of northern Uganda and how schools were displaced here and there amidst insurgency.

I then ended up volunteering for Charity for peace foundation (a night commuter center) in 2002 and still doing that up to now, this was total volunteering and we were not at all paid, so life continued to be difficult as there was no way I could help my mother untill the LIA community came to our center and introduced the IC bracelet project that brought us change over night and in addition to this, we have already learnt how to make bracelets from recycled papers.