All over the world girls are forced to become soldiers, sex slaves, and are trafficked across borders.

In Uganda, for over 20 years, a Rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has
mercilessly executed a campaign against the Ugandan government.

Due to the rebel attacks, over 2 million people from the Acholi tribe in Northern Uganda have been displaced, living in what is known as Internally Displaced Person's camps (IDP).

Within these camps 1,000 people die each week due to lack of sanitation, starvation and disease.

Currently there are over 300,000 child soldiers around the world.

Many of them are young girls.

Over 60,000 child soldiers in Northern Uganda; children forced to be soldiers by the LRA.
They are violently abducted, indoctrinated, and forced to kill or be killed.

The girls are forced to fight as the boys do but are also raped, and given to soldiers as their “wives” often as a reward for high ranking officers. Many of these girls become impregnated by their captors and give birth.
It is common forthem to contract HIV/AIDS and pass it on to their children, as well.

These girls range in age from 10- 20 years old and are known as “child mothers” and are the primary focus of Zion Projects efforts.

When girls escape or are captured by government soldiers they go through army barracks, to a reception center for 1-3 months, or directly back to an impoverished IDP camp. While the hope would be their lives would improve upon escaping, for most of them it only becomes worse. Instead of an open-armed home-coming they experience rejection and discrimination because of having been forced to kill or because of their culture’s negative perception of rape, many are ridiculed and called "killers" and "prostitiutes."

They receive little or no counseling to help them heal.

Their children may not be old enough to recognize the ridicule but they are not safe either. Infant mortality in the camps has risen from 99 to 106 deaths per 1,000 births between 1995 and 2000. Alone and abandoned these girls stand trying to raise the next generation.

You can change her life.

(this gives her & her baby: shelter, safety, medical care, food, counseling, mentoring, vocational training, HIV care)