Aswa Community Development Initiative-ACDI is a fully registered Community Based Organization (CBO) with the Gulu District Local Government Community Services Department with Registration Number CDR/4875 and Gulu District NGO Forum with Registration Number GDNF/MO/209 and was established in 2011 by a group of volunteer youth. The current areas of operation are Awach and Palaro Sub-Counties Aswa county Gulu District. ACDI envisions a well empowered, educative, healthy and developed community living in a well conserved environment. Primarily among the aims of ACDI are; improving the socio-economic conditions of women, youth, children and the elderly with great emphasis on those living with HIV/AIDS, widows, children (orphans) and ensuring the enrichment of their rights to help them fight stigmatization and environmental annihilation