Hope of Children and Women Victims of Violence

Created on Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:59

Laramie Gorbett, Executive Director of Empower Art, will be traveling to Uganda to partner with a humanitarian organization called Hope of Children and Women Victims of Violence. Laramie’s experience working with survivors, knowledge of nonprofit management and anthropology background will be vital to this partnership. She will be adapting Empower Art’s “My Power, My Art” curriculum to facilitate hope and healing for the refugee women and children survivors.

Hope of Children and Women Victims of Violence was founded in March of 2008 by international volunteers who had a passion for the plight of women and children victims of violence. Located in Zana, HOCWUG serves Central African Refugees and Nationals in Uganda They are a non-profit humanitarian organization that seeks to instill hope, provide opportunities and offer support to the community we serve. HOCW programs focus on Education; Social and Economic Development and Health.

The HOCW community is made up of an ever changing population of Ugandans and refugees from DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Sudan and other African countries. We work with victims of wars, rape, natural disasters, extreme poverty and illiteracy. Despite those hardships, the people we serve are eager to learn, industrial, generous and optimistic. For more information please visit our website at www.hocwug.org