SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF FORMER CHILD MOTHER

Akello Sunday was only 12 years old when she was abducted by the Lords Resistance Army in 2003. After being given the choice to assist in the death of her parents or be put to death herself; Akello was forced to begin biting her parents in the process of their killing before the LRA completed their death by canning. After living in captivity for 2 years, Akello managed to escape with her now 1.5 year-old daughter who was conceived and born in the bush. She is now living in an IDP camp in Coo-pe, a small village outside of Gulu, Uganda.

Akello married after returning home from the bush in 2005, but since, had her husband abducted and he has never returned. Akello is ostracized by most of the community that she lives in as a result of having brought home a, ‘bush baby’. A single elderly woman welcomed Akello in to live with her after Akello’s husband was abducted. The elderly woman and Akello have no way to finance themselves due to their health issues. As a result, Akello is malnourished and therefore unable lactate in order to feed her own child. She and her baby were seen at the medical clinic staffed by the medical team that came from America. She was obviously malnourished as was her child, who was diagnosed with malaria, scabies and an infection of the ears. The heartache of hearing stories such as this is great. But we have a hope that supercedes this pain. Through your prayer and financial support to ChildVoice International, provisions will be made possible to provide long-term rehabilitative program care to formerly abducted child mothers such as Akello.