JANET OYELLA
Janet spent 5 years in the LRA after she was abducted at age 14, on her way to school. She managed to escape during a battle and was taken to a convent in Gulu. Pregnant with her first child from a forced LRA marriage, she was rejected there and had to give birth on her own. Two years later, Janet was ambushed and raped by a group of men outside of town. That produced her second child. Her sons Walter and Geoffrey are now 4 and 2 years old. Janet worries how she will pay their schools fees in the years ahead. That is why she joined the IGAP group – to learn how to earn money and build a future for her sons. She likes the comfort of steady work that IGAP bead making provides. Janet hopes to save enough to buy some land and maybe even move into tailoring, a skill she learned through the convent’s vocational training program.
