Achieng was a delegate alongside Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim for the 1995 Harvest for Sudan: Women's Peace Initiative conference in Nairobi.[4] In 1995-96, Olworo travelled throughout Canada with Ibrahim on a speaking tour to inform people about the war atrocities and women’s rights violations taking place in Sudan.[5] She informed the Catholic New Times of Toronto that children and women were being sold into slavery for as little as $35.[6]