Jane Ekayu

Jane Ekayu has extensive experience as a child trauma therapist. While working at the Rachele Rehabilitation Centre in Uganda from 2004 to 2006, her role was to receive child soldiers returning from captivity from the civil war with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), assist them in their physical, emotional, and psychological healing, and facilitate their reintegration back into the community.

In 2006, Ekayu continued her work though Children of Peace Uganda. She is also an accomplished international spokesperson on the issues of child soldiers and war trauma recovery and has captivated audiences in the UN General Assembly Hall, the International Criminal Court, the ICC Review Conference in Kampala, the Amnesty International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival and many others.

For more information on Children of Peace, click here to read an interview with Jane in the Cornell Policy Review.