Healing the Wounds of War in Northern Uganda

IREX’s Conflict Community of Practice Presents

Healing the Wounds of War in Northern Uganda

INVITATION

Monday, November 14, 2011

12:00 - 1:30 pm – Brown Bag Lunch

Please join us for a discussion and short documentary presentation by Founder and Executive Director of Friends of Orphans Uganda, Anywar Ricky Richards

Anywar Ricky Richards calls himself a child born of trouble. Ricky and his brother were just 2 of 25,000 Ugandan children abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army and forced into slavery as child soldiers. Few manage to escape with their lives, but Ricky did, and he turned his freedom into a lifeline for other child slaves. In 1999, Ricky and his friends started Friends of Orphans, an organization dedicated to empowering and reintegrating former child soldiers into a society torn apart by atrocities the children were forced to commit. 

Location: IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board)

2121 K St. NW, Suite 700

Washington, DC 20037

Please RSVP by Friday November 11, 2011 and direct any questions to Erin Murrock at emurrock@irex.org . Please pass this invitation along to any interested colleagues.