No Safe Place to Call Home: Child and Adolescent Night Commuters in Northern Uganda

The Women’s Refugee Commission’s Children and Adolescents Project staff traveled to Gulu and Kitgum Districts in northern Uganda and to Kampala, Uganda’s capital in the south, from December 2-17, 2003. The trip’s principal mission was to assist two youth organizations in developing advocacy strategies for projects the groups were planning to undertake with funding from American Jewish World Service (AJWS). The projects are youth-designed and youth-run and focus principally on addressing adolescent reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, gender issues, peer education and empowerment and youth advocacy.