success stories

From the most complete and up-to-date information, please download our most recent Programme Progress Report (English | French).

With projects now active in northern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Trust Fund for Victims is making concrete differences in the lives of an estimated 70,000 victim survivors.

Amaza Justine is a guardian to four children orphaned by war in Adjumani district, Uganda. With TFV partner ADPI, he is now breeding goats and actively participating in a Village Savings and Loan Association to support these children. Says Justine, “I realised that that there are several other people like me with the same problems and if they can continue living, then why can’t I?”                                                                                                                            

 A trainer at the Dorcas transitional home in South Kivu province, DRC. The centre is managed by TFV partner Action for Living Together for survivors of sexual and/or gender-based violence, providing safe shelter, medical care, small loans and more. The TFV has also provided 600 education grants to the children of these survivors (2 per household) so that they can return to school while their mothers focus on rehabilitation.                                        

A group at the Grow Centre in Gulu, Uganda, which is managed by TFV partner AVSI. AVSI produces prosthetic limbs and orthotic devices and provides physical rehabilitation and support for income generating activities. With support from the TFV, AVSI has supported 395 victims of war throughout the north since late 2008.     

  A farmers cooperative heads out to their fields in Lira district, Uganda. TFV partner NECPA has formed over 100 such cooperatives in two districts in the north. In addition to growing high-value crops, these group actively advocate on behalf of victims' rights by lobbying local leadership to be more inclusive and responsive to victims' special needs.

 

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  • Assistance to promote community reconciliation

    From the perspectives of Congolese, the conflicts are seen differently in Ituri than in the Kivus.1 While natural resources and struggles for power are considered the driving forces behind violence in the Kivus, land is the major issue in Ituri. When asked about the origins of conflict, 60% of Iturians mention conflict over and/or access to land. In the Kivus, only 25% mention land.

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  • Assistance to children and youth

    UNSCR 1612 on children and armed conflict requires that children be active participants in disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration campaigns, with special protections for girls in particular. Ten TFV projects are providing rehabilitation and support to children victimized by war, including children associated with armed forces, children who lost their parents to the war, children of SGBV survivors, and other children made vulnerable by crimes against humanity and war crimes.

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  • Assistance to victims of sexual violence

    Rape is still endemic in parts of the DRC. In 2005, the New York Times had labelled it “the worst place on earth to be a woman.” Still today, some 1,100 rapes are reported each month in the DRC’s eastern provinces, with an average of 36 women and girls raped every day according to the Secretary-General’s latest report on the implementation of UN Resolution 1325 (September 2009).1 Most experts, however, regard this statistic as deflated.

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