The percentage of GRG’s expenditures that go directly to programs in Uganda.
Advisory Board
Betty Bigombe
Betty Bigombe is former chief mediator to the northern Uganda peace process. She has tirelessly played the role of peace advocate and advisor to the warring factions and been a voice to the international community for the people of Northern Uganda. From 2004-2006, as chief mediator she arranged the first ever face-to-face meeting between the Ugandan government and the LRA, which led to the Juba peace process. Bigombe was named “Uganda’s Woman of the Year” in 1994 for her efforts as a Ugandan government minister to broker peace and has received numerous international awards since then, from the UN, Tannenbaum Center, and others. She holds a master’s degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has been a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, as well as Senior Social Scientist at the World Bank.
John Prendergast
John Prendergast is a co-founder of the Enough Project, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity. During the Clinton administration, John was involved in a number of peace processes in Africa while he was director of African Affairs at the National Security Council and special advisor at the Department of State. John has also worked for members of Congress, the United Nations, human rights organizations, and think tanks, as well as having been a youth counselor and basketball coach in the United States. He has authored eight books on Africa, including Not on Our Watch, a New York Times bestseller and NAACP non-fiction book of the year that he co-authored with actor Don Cheadle.
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189
The number of women in GRG projects.
139
Number of 13 to 16-year-old girls abducted in a raid of an all-girls school and given to LRA commanders as "wives".
23
The number of years that war has persisted in northern Uganda.
50
The percentage of LRA commanders who have had more than five forced wives.
16
The current number of GRG group farming projects.
75 cents
The average daily income for a northern Ugandan youth.
1.8 million
The number of people who lost their homes at height of northern Uganda’s war.
5
The number of arrest warrants for crimes against humanity and war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court against LRA leaders.
1 in 3
The number of female youth who are able to read and write in northern Uganda.
.22
The chance that an individual abducted by the LRA will not return home.
1 in 3
The odds that a northern Ugandan boy or young man was abducted by rebels.
12-17
The main target age for LRA abductions.
900,000
Number of people who remain in displacement camps in northern Uganda.
150
The number of former child soldiers and ex-combatants in GRG projects.
1 in 6
The odds that a northern Ugandan girl or woman was abducted by rebels.
$1.7 billion
The annual cost of the war in northern Uganda.
3
The current number of GRG micro-loan projects.
66,000
The number of youth and children abducted by LRA rebels in northern Uganda, many of whom were forced to kill.
1 in 10
The rate at which babies die before their first birthday in northern Uganda.
418
The number of participants in GRG programs.
8
The number of communities with current GRG projects.
8
The first age at which a child becomes vulnerable to abduction by the LRA.
6
The current number of GRG brick-making projects.