Brown University - Uganda 2009

Goal: 1

This June, six students from Brown University will travel to Northern Uganda to work with the Uganda Fund. The Uganda Fund supports initiatives that focus on educating and reintegrating war-affected children and youth and facilitating processes of transitional justice and reconciliation. By helping young people help themselves, the Uganda Fund is enabling future generations to rebuild their communities and create conditions for lasting peace.

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The Uganda Fund Final Video for the Clinton Global Initiative

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Day 16

On June 15th we set off for Pader, the capital of Pader district, a few hours east of Gulu. Our objective was the Pader Girls’ Academy, a Uganda Fund beneficiary. The deplorable roads tested even the strongest stomachs, but finally we arrived at the school, a small compound surrounding a dusty courtyard not too far from the main road. The grounds were spacious, and teeming with farm animals—cows, pigs, chickens, and goats. Big black and orange lizards scurried on the walls.

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Day 13

The day after visiting Gulu High School we met Julius, who works at the Gulu District NGO Forum and agreed to be our translator for that day’s outing: the Straight Talk group in the IDP camp at Awach. We drove to the village and followed faint singing to the Straight Talk building, skirting the mud brick, thatched-roof huts. They were practicing for our arrival, singing in Luo.

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