Programmes for Justice and Reconciliation
The Far Gone Tour will be raising funds for the WAN across all of its tour locations in 2020, help us to support the ongoing work committed to supporting and healing war-affected women and men.
The Women’s Advocacy Network
The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) of the Justice and Reconciliation Project (JRP) is a forum where more than 900 war-affected women and men come together to advocate for justice, acknowledgement and accountability for sexual- and gender-based violations inflicted upon them during conflicts in northern Uganda.
Comprised of 16 grassroots women’s groups within the Acholi, Lango and West Nile sub-regions, it meets quarterly to discuss advocacy issues, work towards consensus and develop strategies to ensure that issues of contention are addressed. The WAN was founded by conflict-affected women in 2011 and is currently housed as a semi-autonomous body within JRP.
Vision
To seek reintegration, reconciliation, and justice for war affected women.
advocate
To advocate for the inclusion of war-affected women’s reparations and accountability needs within the TJ framework in Uganda.
empower
To empower and build the capacity of war-affected women so that they become more effective leaders, community mobilizers, and agents of change in their own communities.
Promote awareness
To advocate for the promotion and respect of rights of children born during the war and/or born from forced marriages while their mothers were abducted.
Travel Journal
Meeting ex-LRA child soldiers.
Our writer and actor John Rwothomack met with some ex LRA child soldiers in Gulu, Uganda. We can’t show their faces for obvious reasons but it was an absolute honour to meet the very people this play represents. To talk, eat, cry and laugh with them.
Our history is big part of our identity but it doesn’t for one second define our future. It was great to see hope, and healing in progress. The hardest thing to stomach was the recognition of the characters in the play in these five wonderful individuals we met.
Visiting WAN
In Uganda we visited the Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) a visit. The work Evelyn Amony is doing to reunite families and give women foot to stand on is humbling. We are so proud to have chosen WAN as our charity. Thank you for all the donations so far, we kindly ask that you continue supporting us in our attempt to raising money for WAN.
Far Gone Programmes for Justice.
The Far Gone Tour will be raising funds for the WAN across all of its tour locations in 2020, through the sale of our programmes.
We are asking for anyone who has been moved by the play’s narrative and the history behind the piece, to support the ongoing work committed to supporting and healing the thousands of people affected.
For any given show, you will have the opportunity to pay whatever you decide for the programme, knowing that it benefit this vital cause.
We thank you for the support you give.