GROW was founded 1996 in a rural village in Tilling, Teso, Ngora District in North Eastern Uganda following the return of the displaced community from Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camps. The community people had taken refuge at the displaced camps because of widespread instability in the region which was made worse by years of conflict with the Karamojong Cattle rustlers. The community peo
ple that returned from the displaced camps were mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many of the adult male population had been killed during the bloody conflict while the younger men and boys were either conscripted into the fighting armies or abducted to serve as child soldiers.
