KOBWIN_PROJECT from Dathan Graham on Vimeo.
We are very excited that after years of preparation, we have officially opened our Kobwin Children’s Center. By His grace, we are now helping to bring the Fatherhood of God on a full-time basis to former child soldiers and other affected (“Invisible Children”) by the Lord’s Resistance Army atrocities in northern Uganda. Twenty-one of these young people, sometimes called “returnees”, are now living at our Kobwin Center. The returnees receive intense educational remediation and discipleship in the context of family. The next step will be to build a vocational school.
The vision to establish a center in the east of Uganda grew out of the desperate situation observed when New Hope Uganda staff and children went to Soroti as Mission Hope Soroti. New Hope ministered there to those suffering in the aftermath of the invasion of the area by Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army in 2003.
From that time to now, New Hope staff have been reaching out to the region. New Hope has been very involved in the reconciliation movement that has helped bring healing to many.In 2008, New Hope narrowed its focus to returnees from the area of Amuria. A series of week-long camp experiences knitted us together with the Amuria community and nearly 60 of the returnees living there. Today, the returnees who have not moved to the Kobwin Center are provided counseling and tutoring by New Hope staff in Amuria. This presence enables New Hope to be a part of the healing process in both the returnees and the communities they live in.
