Shortly after arrival in Kampala, her Auntie’s promise of education and better life was nowhere to be found. Anna was forced to turn a profit in her Auntie’s bar by entertaining the customers in demoralizing ways. Read how the Empowerment Program restored her life.

At only 14 years old, Suzan was living with her mother and her abusive stepfather, an alcoholic who sexually exploited her. He infected her with STDs, and threatened violence as a way to force her into silence.

20-year-old Claire had to drop out of school and leave her parents home, because of domestic violence. A neighbor assured her that the Commercial Sex Business would bring her a good life. It only brought misery. Read more...

First a child bride to an abusive husband, then tricked by a friend in Commercial Sex Trafficking. 3 kids and no where to turn, until she met Miriam - the 10,000 Lights Women's Centre Director.