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Oasis Uganda Net2Work
Strategic Focus: Economic Empowerment
Where: Uganda
 Child soldiers are some of the most damaged victims of the civil war in Northern Uganda. As they return to their communities, traumatised, uneducated, and stigmatised, they desperately need hope to avoid a life of crime and isolation.
In partnership with HOPEHIV, Oasis Uganda has taken Net2Work - its pioneering computer skills training programme - into the conflict zone. Partnering with World Vision rehabilitation centres in Gulu and Pader, the course is offering these former child soldiers a lifeline for the future. The programme is internationally accredited and graduates have good employment prospects: new secretarial bureaus and internet cafes are opening all the time.
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We see hope in Cosma.
Cosma is 23. When he was 19, he was living in Kampala, Uganda and because he hadn’t finished school, was only able to get casual jobs. His pastor told him about Net2Work, an IT skills course run by HOPEHIV partner Oasis. After he finished the course, he and a fellow graduate opened an e-academy at their church. Oasis spotted his potential and asked him to be a trainer for the new Net2Work course for former child soldiers in Gulu, in the war-torn north of the country.
Cosma told us, ‘This work in Gulu has given me joy and hope. I was initially fearful of coming to Gulu as I had heard all these stories of the atrocities. When I arrived the students seemed rude but I saw they were just traumatized young people who needed me to build a relationship with them.’ Cosma uses part of his salary to pay his younger brother’s school fees. In 2008 one of his 150 Gulu graduates became a teacher at the newly opened Net2Work academy for former child soldiers in Pader.
Find out more about Net2Work.
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