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In 1991 Irene Gleeson, an Australian grandmother from the northern beaches of Sydney, heard about children being abducted by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda. Irene was concerned about the plight of the children and felt God’s call on her life to help them. Irene sold everything she owned including her beachside home, towed her modest caravan to Uganda and used the proceeds of the sale to begin a full day care school in Kitgum, Uganda. A schoolteacher by trade, Irene began teaching 50 children to write their names in the dust under a mango tree and to sing songs. Irene lived through 15 years of war, attacks, poverty and refugee camp life and spent a third of her life with the people of Northern Uganda. From her first school under a tree, IGF has now grown into five primary schools that educate, feed and provide medical care for over 6,000 children daily. A business and technical vocational school provides youth with training in carpentry, building

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