Gulu

Sylvia Obal Acan

In northern Uganda, these women move past insurgency by baking cakes

Conflict

Today, the group has 61 members — women who are HIV-positive, widows, single mothers, women who face domestic abuse, former abductees who lost their limbs or still live with bullet wounds and women whose children were abducted during the conflict, with some of them never returning.

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