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The School of Restoration

By: Alice Achan, Philippa Tyndale
Narrated by: Ratidzo Mambo
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Alice Achan was just 13 when the Lord’s Resistance Army first terrorised her village in Northern Uganda in 1987. She spent five years on the run from the brutal LRA and then cared for her young nieces after their mother died of AIDS, losing them one by one to the disease. Their deaths plunged her into depression, which only began to lift after she took in an unexpected guest: a pregnant teenage girl, kidnapped and assaulted by the LRA, who had escaped captivity with her toddler.

Spurred on by her young friend’s plight, Alice began to house and nurture survivors of the sexual violence that was a trademark of the LRA’s 20-year campaign. Out of this rose the Pader Girls Academy, which Alice saw as a ‘School of Restoration’. It has helped hundreds of girls, many left with babies and HIV as a result of their enslavement.

Written in Alice’s powerful yet understated voice, The School of Restoration is a compelling story of hope, forgiveness, redemption and the human capacity to survive and even thrive against the backdrop of war and chaos.

©2020 Philippa Tyndale (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Biographies & Memoirs Survival Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Emotionally Gripping
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The pain and cruelty that the girls have faced are unimaginable and heartbreaking. I am deeply moved by their spirit, and grateful for how Alice and those behind the School of Restoration are continuing to open doors that most of the world leaves shut for these girls.

A story of courage and hope

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