Please help us raise funds for the next phase of research!  DONATE here. SHOP artisan products here. (all proceeds from the sale of these items benefit our fundraising efforts.  Take 40% off your purchase using discount code justice) 

More on the next phase of research: Our Ugandan team completed research in the central region of Uganda.  Survivor researchers interviewed acid attack survivors and received data from hospitals and police stations regarding the incidence of acid violence.  This data is key to showing the Ugandan parliament that acid attacks are a big problem in Uganda and a human rights issue that warrants legislative action.  Our next phase of research is to interview survivors and collect hospital and police data from all other regions of Uganda.  Plans are underway to train eight additional survivor researchers and to map out the regions and collect the needed data.  For this part of the project, we need to raise approximately $2800.  That money will be used to pay survivor researchers for their time and transportation across different districts in Uganda, and to pay Johnson Owonda, the researcher and statistician who is heading up this research project.  

The results of the research will be compiled into a situational analysis, a comprehensive document describing the problem of acid violence in Uganda.  This situational analysis will include demographic information on survivors (age, gender, education level, etc), the 'reason' they were attacked, medical interventions received, and any legal consequences faced by their perpetrator.  Then, the situational analysis will be shared with key legislators in Uganda to lend support for the law.  

Please donate and shop to support this project.  We cannot do it without you!  Thank you, RISE & HOCRAM teams 

Pictured above: Ugandan acid attack survivor & peer researcher for the central region, Shamilah, modeling jewelry made by acid attack survivor Julie