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AWARE UGANDA (Action for women and Awakening in Rural Environment) was formed in 1989 by a group of Local rural women of Kaabong District in Karamoja region. It was initiated by Mrs. Grace Loumo with an aim of taking women out of their plight in this region by net working rural women to build their skills, learn their rights as women, fight poverty, violence, suffering and HIV/AIDs. It’s a fully registered organization with the national NGO board with Reg. No. S.5914/1033 operating in 4 district of Karamoja regions ie Abim, Kaabong, Kotido, Moroto. AWARE-UG was formed because of gender imbalance, resulting in to high levels of domestic violence & GBV, family neglect, women and human rights abuses, cattle rustling causing high family death, highs levels of illiteracy among Karamojong women, primitive culture, high levels of HIV/AIDS as a result of rural nomadic migration. AWARE boasts of a very experienced, exposed team in the social, economic and cultural problems affecting

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