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We partner with IJM to support their work in Uganda through sponsoring the internship program. IJM works to protect vulnerable individuals from sexual violence, illegal property seizure, illegal detention and police brutality. These crimes overwhelmingly victimize the poor and children.

Across Africa, after the death of her husband or father, a woman can lose her land, home and livelihood in rapid succession. In Uganda, more than one in five widows and orphans lose all or part of their rightful inheritance though illegal property seizure by relatives. This injustice has ramifications far beyond the initial theft: frequently, children are forced to drop out of school to begin working in the aftermath of illegal property seizure, when their family's financial needs become so pressing that potential earnings outweigh the value of education. For many families, property can literally be the difference between life and death — it is the source of shelter, and, in many cases, livelihood and food.

International Justice Mission

"To designate a hell is not, of course, to tell us anything about how to extract people from that hell, how to moderate hell's flames. Still, it seems a good in itself to acknowledge, to have enlarged, one's sense of how much suffering caused by human wickedness there is in the world we share with others. Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood. No one after a certain age has the right to this kind of innocence, of superficiality, to this degree of ignorance, or amnesia." (Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 114) Susan Sontag