China Keitetsi was born in Uganda and currently lives in Denmark. At the age of eight she was recruited by the Ugandan Resistance Army NRA (National Resistance Army). There, she was given a new name—she was called “China” by her instructor, who interpreted her visage as Asian—and she was given a gun. In 2004, China founded The African Child Soldiers and War Victims Charity, whose main purpose is to be a center for the reintegration of former child soldiers/orphans.