My name is Steffanie Lynch and I am an Internet consultant residing in Austin, Texas in the U.S. I created this Website to raise awareness of the remarkable people in northern Uganda and the special programs that support them through a very challenging time. I begin here by telling the story of one precious child born in northern Uganda to a teenage mother living in a camp for internally displaced persons during a horrific civil war. When the baby was born, her mother, Nancy Auma, named her Aloyo, which is an Acholi word meaning "I have survived." This Website is dedicated to baby Aloyo and her mother and others like them whose faith gives them the will to hope and rise up to overcome the most difficult of circumstances.

This story of what happened to Nancy when she was just a 17 year old child is as difficult for me to write about as it will probably be for you to read. My hope is that when you read this story and look at the photos, it will change your life. It did mine.

I will add that the photos and information presented here are made public with permission of Nancy Auma because she wanted this story told. For that courageous offering, she is my hero.

Conditions In Northern Uganda, 2005
In 2004-2006 I was participating in awareness campaigns for GuluWalk and raising funds for UNICEF to aid the people of northern Uganda during a horrific civil war. In early 2006 on one of my virtual journeys looking for updates on the peace movement, I came upon a publication distributed by Jesuits from the Midwestern U.S. who had a dream to help build a better northern Uganda.

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