Re-advertised: GRG is hiring a new Program Director (Head of Mission)
Posted in NewsGRG is recruiting a Program Director (Head of Mission) for Post-conflict Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda/Eastern Congo The Grassroots Reconciliation Group (GRG) seeks a Program Director (Head of Mission) to head the office in Gulu, northern Uganda and lead the setting ...
Deadline extended: Program Director (HEAD OF MISSION)
Posted in NewsGRG is recruiting a Program Director (Head of Mission) for DDR Reintegration + Peacebuilding NGO in Northern Uganda/Eastern Congo The Grassroots Reconciliation Group (GRG) seeks a Program Director (Head of Mission) to head the office in Gulu, northern Uganda and lead ...
Peace and Development Internship Apply Now
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GRG is now accepting applications for its Peace and Development Internship Program. The Internship is based in Gulu, Northern Uganda The Grassroots Reconciliation Group (GRG) is a dynamic conflict resolution/development organization working to facilitate the reconciliation between ex-combatants and their home communities ...
How Community Theater changed a life.
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by Jasper Kubasek Doris Oroma recalls shrieks, shouting and mind-numbing terror as she tells us of the moment LRA rebels dragged her, then a 16-year-old babysitter, and her younger brother from their family home. She describes a captivity defined by horrific beatings, ...
“We need to educate our children about the past”
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Children gather to listen in on a group meeting in Parachelle, Lamwo. One mother who spent time in LRA captivity told us, “We want to forget the past, but we also need to teach our children about what happened before they ...
Bringing trauma healing to child soldiers this holiday season
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photo credit Amanda Voisard by GRG Team It is with great excitement that we are announcing our holiday fundraiser, The Community Theater for Peace Project! Child soldiers, abducted against their will and made to commit terrible human rights abuses, deserve a normal, peaceful life. ...
Literacy for war-torn societies: GRG’s grassroots approach to empowering illiterate conflict survivors
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By Alany Joel & Jasper Kubasek Child soldiers often miss out on schooling. In the chaos of more than two decades of conflict in northern Uganda, a generation of people grew into adulthood often not having the opportunity to pursue education ...
GRG reinvests in its community theater for peace projects
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By Francis Opio Only a few years ago, the people of northern Uganda faced abductions, rape, killings and other abuses by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Now, although the guns are silent, communities in northern Uganda still grapple with issues that ...
GRG is recruiting for a Radio and Field Program Associate: accepting applications until 26/10/2015
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Radio and Field Program Associate, GRG The Grassroots Reconciliation Group (GRG) is recruiting a Radio and Field Program Associate to work on the ROCO GANG radio program airing on RADIO RUPINY and to support GRG program implementation across northern Uganda. ...
A post-conflict paradox of northern Uganda
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By Jasper Kubasek I woke up on the morning of our second day in Palabek in the house of two priests. Sitting just below the border with South Sudan, the one-road town is the largest in northern Uganda’s Lamwo district. The ...