The Empowerment and Rehabilitation Initiative for Commercial Sex workers (EARI -CSW) project seeks to ensure that the most marginalised have equal rights to health and empowerment. This project will look through the bottom-top approach.

The project participants were later on engaged in their problem identification and strategy design. This approach together with the three years experiences earned while managing similar projects but at border posts, facilitated the birth of this project.

In a bid to transform the socio-economic wellbeing of women commercial sex workers and at risk youth aged in Amuru District, below is a story of change from a rightsholder  whose dignity and integrity was restored as a result of the project interventions.  

Judith Agnes Okot- success story  

I’m Judith Agnes Okot, a woman with dignity, love, care, integrity and always dreamt to achieve. Yes! This is me. As a single mother of three girls. I am forced to be the mother, father and everything to these children. So don’t judge me because you are not capable of doing what I do.  

Did I choose to be a single mother? No! Of course not. It’s not always a woman’s choice to be a single mother and those women out there in my position know what I’m talking about. So don’t judge me. But what distinguishes me in the crowd is that I am a dreamer, capable of doing what a normal family does. I love my children; they mean the world to me. On Women’s Day this year, my elder daughter Trinity said to her younger sister, “Maama is so special to me”. Do you know what that means to me? And do you know why I am special? It’s because I provide what a normal family does for their children. This has made me passionate to work with women in my situation because I believe and know that they are the most vulnerable beings in the world. I love women and children and always do what I can to support them.