LBL Foundation,
Kitgum
The Aziza Foundation has partnered with the LBL Foundation
for Children to fund an after-school sports and cultural
program for displaced orphan girls in Kitgum in northern
Uganda.
The girls are severely disadvantaged,
having survived atrocities in war-ravaged sections of
northern Uganda. At an annual cost of $2,500, up to
100 orphaned girls will have the opportunity to engage
in sports, music, and dance to help them toward recovery
from difficult and often traumatic starts.
This program will provide a safe after-school
space for orphaned girls, to contribute to their emotional
healing and ultimately to their intellectual development.
Y.Y. Okot Memorial College
The Aziza Foundation, partnering with the LBL Foundation
for Children, is working with the local girls school
at Y.Y. Okot Memorial College in Kitgum, to develop
a program for extracurricular cultural and physical
activities. This program will provide a safe after-school
space for orphaned girls, to contribute to their emotional
healing and ultimately to their intellectual development.
The LBL Foundation for Children is
an independent international organization devoted to
protection, hope, healing and education for children
in communities devastated by war. Ugandan-born Olara
A. Otunnu, the former UN Under Secretary General and
Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict,
founded the LBL Foundation in 2006. |