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IRIN Radio gives a voice to vulnerable communities and provides them with information to make better-informed decisions about their own lives. IRIN Radio produces high-quality programming in local languages on humanitarian issues, ready for broadcast by local stations. The service also provides hands-on training to journalists, developing their production and reporting skills, allowing local radio to serve communities more effectively.
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UGANDA: Living to tell the tale
Auma Joyce, 61, survived a rebel massacre at Balonyo IDP camp in February 2004, when more than 300 people were killed allegedly by the Lord's Resistance Army. Femrite's Margaret Aduto met Joyce at Balonyo burial site to record her story. | Duration: 09:15 |
UGANDA: Forced to be a rebel child bride
Adong Mary was abducted at the age of 10 by rebels who attacked her village in Lira district. She was married off to an LRA captain and had three children. She escaped with her children in 2004. She narrated her ordeal to Femrite's Margaret Aduto. | Duration: 04:51 |
UGANDA: Against all odds
Akulu Eunice was abducted by LRA rebels at the age of eight, and spent 12 years with them in the bush. She witnessed countless horrors before being rescued, and undergoing rehabilitation therapy at an NGO centre in Gulu. She told her remarkable story to Femrite's Oketta Barbara, beginning with her recollections of being abducted as a child. | Duration: 11:50 |
UGANDA: Land mine survivor
Atim Beatrice, a mother of nine children, was injured after stepping on a land mine while living in Ongako camp in Gulu district. She talked to Oketta Barbara about the tough life she has lived over the the past 10 years. | Duration: 05:03 |
UGANDA: The silver lining
Akwero Judith is one of thousands of widows in the north, struggling to raise six children alone after her husband died of HIV/AIDS. But despite the hardships, she has seen one of her children win a scholarship to university, as she told Oketta Barbara. | Duration: 06:08 |
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