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Te-Kworo Foundation

Mosman, New South Wales, Australia • 2 Employees
Nonprofit Organization Management

Alice Achan is the founder and Executive Director of Te-Kworo Foundation, which she began in 2002, in the heat of a 20 year civil war that saw the abduction and enslavement of 20,000 children in northern Uganda.The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) began their conflict in Acholiland in 1987 when Alice was only a teenager. She was forced out of school for years at a time, often running and hiding to escape rebel abduction. This gave her a hunger to finish her own education, and an understanding of the struggle girls in her community faced to stay in school.After escaping northern Uganda and completing secondary school in her mid-twenties Alice began training in social work and then decided to return home to help rehabilitate girls returning from captivity.Kworo Pader High School, a boarding school for girls, was founded in 2008 in response to Alice witnessing girls – and babies – being shunned in their communities after returning from conflict. Resuming education was the crucial key to reclaiming their lives.In addition to girls' education and community education around gender-based violence, Alice and her team advocate for improvements in maternal health, particularly for girl mothers by running a maternal health facility that also provides outreach in remote communities.