Apio, Lucy, 30, is sitting on the floor rolling beads. Her cat is napping nearby. From a small boom box music is playing. Lucy came to live in the Acholi Quarter seven years ago. Her first husband died of AIDS which she also has. She is getting treatment for it. She had three children with her first husband and now has remarried and has another child. They also care for another young girl who is the daughter of a destitute relative.

Lucy and her husband have a small quarry lease. He works in the rock quarry while Lucy is specializes in making beads. With her bead money Lucy has paid school fees, bought food, and purchased two new chairs for her neat one room home. She says that someday she hopes to have the resources to do “something to help all the orphans.”