Agoro Community Development Association (ACDA) is run out of Kitgum, Uganda but works in twelve of the nearby twenty-two IDP (internally displaced persons) camps. ACDA began small, a organization working to remove and properly bury those killed, it has now grown immensely with a seventy-two person volunteer staff. Their current programs include:
- Education: RESPECT pen-pals program is working in seven primary schools and forty students are enrolled in RESPECT University. ACDA runs a vocational school aimed to help school drop-outs and those unable to pay for secondary school. In collaboration with WTE, they are also sending orphan girls to a boarding secondary school. The IDP camp does not have a secondary school so they must enter a boarding school nearly fifty kilometers away. Social workers and other volunteers hold trainings on various health issues, computer training, and run a child daycare (under 5 years of age) having over 1400 children, the building were created with the help of UN funding.
- Human Rights & Peace Building: ACDA engages their community with seminars and sensitization, also in working with community leaders for information sharing.
- Health: ACDA helps orphans find foster families and to encourage attendance in school. They have various teaching groups, one a group of people living with HIV and other being a women’s co-operative group. In collaboration with WTE, seminars on HIV/AIDS have taken place with selected members in the IDP camp. Volunteers also hold workshops on hygiene, water, and HIV/AIDS.
 Welcome sign for ACDA in Kitgum, Uganda First meeting with WTE in Agoro IDP camp Agoro IDP camp, located in northern Uganda |
