A high school guidance counsellor’s office in Kampala, Uganda, was big enough for Deborah Serwadda to offer career advice and aptitude tests, but it was far too small to cope with the physically abused kids, runaways and their disintegrating families that routinely waited outside her door. A privileged upbringing as the eldest of seven children of an Anglican priest had prepared Serwadda to be an educator, and she had all the right credentials. "It wasn't enough," she says. "These kids were so badly off." She volunteered at Hope After Rape, a non-governmental organisation set up by a woman psychiatrist to counsel the rape victims who in Uganda were traditionally shunned, as though the rapes were somehow their fault.