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Reading more about an amazing Grace

Christianity Today just posted an interview with Grace Akallo from last October, when she addressed the Peace Within Reach gathering in Washington, D.C.

Who is Grace Akallo? She was one of 139 teenage girls kidnapped from their Uganda school dorm by members of Josheph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. As mentioned numerous times on this blog, Kony fuels his army by abducting children and forcing them to be soldiers, laborers and sex slaves. According to World Vision, more than 30,000 have been kidnapped since the war’s beginning in 1987, and more than 1.7 million people have been forced into displacement camps, where food and water are scarce and disease is plentiful. But children aren’t safe even in these camps. So, up to 50,000 leave their homes and the camps each night and walk miles to cities and towns to sleep on sidewalks or, if they are lucky, a shelter where they lay on concrete floors with thousands of other children. This nightly routine has earned them the name “night commuters.” (For more information, see World Vision’s synopsis.)

After you read the CT interview, you can read more about Grace on this blog or at World Vision (and here) and The Washington Post. But don't just read. Really listen to her. And then pray about what you can do to help stop the suffering of children like her.

(Image: children in the conflicted region of Northern Uganda, USAID; public domain)