Loving Life Heals is a non profit organization focused on helping people achieve a new way of living and thinking the Loving Life way. The model was developed by Dr. Yvonka De Ridder on July 9th after her first visit to Lira, Uganda. Dr. Yvonka traveled to Uganda with friends Jeff Bronson and Aja Nikiya to “re-spark” her passion for helping as she puts it. During her time there, Dr. Yvonka met Emma Acenga. Emma was saving and housing young teen and adult women that have been captured and sex slaved during the war and helping to rehabilitate their trauma.
Dr. Yvonka was so inspired by Emma, that she wrote the model for bringing her dream to fruition. Since then, Dr. Yvonka and Emma have continued to build the safe house for these girls and women while also implementing the Loving Life model throughout an entire district of villages that the Loving Life Heals organization has adopted to care for.
The very first project launched under the Loving Life Heals organization is the New Beginnings project.
The new Beginnings project purpose is to be committed, united with hard working volunteers, who are able to help implement education and attain new perspectives, beliefs, and behaviors towards overall human health development for its people and for generations to come in order to heal the people of trauma and completely transform their society to have a hopeful future.
The New Beginnings Center is located in Lira, Uganda under the direct operational care of Emma Aceng. The New Beginnings Model was developed July 9th, 2017 by Dr. Yvonka De Ridder.
Development and Trauma Healing
Program Goals:
1. To create a safe and secure environment for young girls, women, and community individuals to process trauma and move towards healing.
2. To help develop young girls and women into becoming inspiring, confident, and effective leaders in the community. To help influence change on a large grand scale by placement in leadership and mentor positions within the program itself or in the community.
3. To disrupt repetitive cycles of violence and abuse by improving individual self-awareness, confidence, coping skills, and education.
The Loving Life Model Theory:
The ultimate idea is that if we focus on the subjective interest of personality, we can shift perspective enough to instill a mentality and patter of thought that will result in community members taking action and responsibility to create change while caring enough to sustain their environments, respect themselves and others, as well as continuing to grow, learn, and improve.
