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Els De Temmerman (born 10 February 1962, Oudenaarde) is a Belgian former journalist who established Childsoldiers, [1] an organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of child soldiers in Africa. She is also the author of Aboke Girls , a novel about the 1996 Aboke abductions in Northern Uganda.
Before her career as a journalist, she taught at Feng Chia University, China. She also worked with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Sudan.
On 12 November 2006, she was appointed editor-in-chief of the Ugandan-based newspaper, New Vision . This appointment took effect on 1 December 2006. [2] She resigned in October 2008. [3] [4]
In 2010, the UN entrusted Els De Temmerman to establish an asylum for child soldiers in north-east Congo, which she opened in 2013. [5]
Els De Temmerman is married to Johan Van Hecke, a Belgian politician who lives in Oosterzele. In 2008, she and Van Hecke became ownerx of the hotel Cassia Lodge in Uganda. On the 7th of July 2011, she gave birth to twin daughters. [6] [7] In 2018, De Temmerman and Van Hecke sold Cassia Lodge, after which she started a new hotel called Kaazi Beach Resort. [8]