Irene Gleeson Foundation

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 sold everything she owned including her beachside home, towed her modest caravan to uganda & 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 tree & to sing songs. irene lived through 15 years of war, attacks, poverty & refugee camp life & spent a third of her life with the people of northern uganda. igf has now grown into 5 schools that educate, feed & provide medical care for over 6,000 children daily. a health program has evolved to keep children & parents healthy, including a 60-bed hiv hospital, health clinics, a maternity hospital currently under construction, & village & community health initiatives. in addition, igf manages 91.5 mighty fire fm, a community r