Not For Sale is supporting the Jesuit community in Gulu, Northern Uganda to rebuild a community of peace and unity through education and music.
Current Projects
- OCER Campion Jesuit School: Not For Sale is completing the construction of the classroom building and girls dormitory for former child soldiers and at risk children in war-torn Gulu.
- UNDUGU Family: Not For Sale is beginning the construction of a Peace Garden amphitheater which seeks to unite different populations and ethnicities through music and performance
- Mapping Slavery: Not For Sale is a documenting, mapping and researching case of slavery in Uganda and East Africa. NFS is collaborating with local anti-trafficking organizations to build a coalition fighting against modern day slavery and influencing changes in policy.
Background: The Issue
Northern Uganda has been plagued by a history of conflict, and over the past two decades, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) of the Northern Region of Uganda has terrorized the people living within that area. In the twenty years since its inception, the LRA has been abducting and enslaving children. The LRA used the children it abducts to fill about 80% of its ranks. The children as young as seven are used to raid villages, execute prisoners, act as baggage porters or sex slaves. Children are often placed on the frontlines on the battlefield or forced to form rings around senior officers. Trafficked children who have not been abducted by the LRA are often sold in the cattle markets at Karamajo on the Kenyan border. The children are sold for sexual exploitation, and domestic servitude.
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