Over 16,000 formerly abducted persons rescued since 2002
Published: September 30, 2005
World Vision’s centres for formerly abducted persons in Gulu has played an important role in providing rehabilitation care to children and adults who were abducted by rebels in northern Uganda.
Since 2002, more than 16,000 children have been rescued from the hands of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that has been terrorizing people in northern Uganda for more than two decades.
During a weekly security briefing held on 23 September, the Ugandan office of the fourth division army spokesperson in Gulu said that they had to date received 16,702 children from the bush.
The number of children rescued may be higher than these cited, as there are several reception centres that receive formerly abducted children. Some children do not go through the child protection unit before they are transferred to reception centres for rehabilitation.
Currently World Vision runs three centres in Gulu district: the children centre, child-mothers centre, and the male adult centre. World Vision is also able to provide psychosocial care to children in programs, which continues even when the children leave the centre.
World Vision has received, rehabilitated and reunited about 6,000 formerly abducted persons since 2002. Likewise, World Vision has rehabilitated and reunited more than 13,000 children and adults since the inception of the formerly abducted persons program in 1995.
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