ABOUT US 

My name is Sarah Areso Amony.
I was born on October, 1987, the very night my mother fled Gem Village in Agago District
during a brutal attack by the Lord’s Resistance Army. In the chaos of that raid, my father was
abducted. Amid gunfire and terror, my mother ran into the darkness carrying nothing but the life
within her and an unshakable determination to survive.
That was the beginning of my story.
For the first ten years of my life, war defined my world. I grew up believing I had no father. My
mother and grandmother raised me in deep hardship. I watched my mother carry burdens no
woman should carry alone. I saw the silent tears. I felt the absence. I lived with questions no
child should ever have to ask.
Then one day, my father returned- thin, broken, but alive.
And I rejected him.
How could this stranger be my father? Where had he been when we struggled? Where was he
when we needed him most? Yet slowly, through patience and quiet love, something began to
mend. Our family did not heal overnight but we healed.
And in that healing, a seed was planted in me:
If war could shatter a family, perhaps love, compassion, and persistence could rebuild one.
Years later, during the insurgency in Northern Uganda, I visited displacement camps. I met
mothers who looked like my mother. Children who looked like me. Their stories mirrored my
own- loss, displacement, uncertainty, resilience.