The Generation for Change
I recently attended the Clinton Global Initiative University meeting at UC San Diego where nearly 1,200 students, teachers, activists, celebrities, and all-round inspiring people gathered to discuss solutions to the world’s most pressing issues. In advance of the meeting, participants had to develop a commitment to action, or a specific plan that addresses challenges to education, the environment, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation, or public health. The commitments represented solutions at the campus, community, and global level, and behind each one was a passionate participant who believes in his or her ability to make a positive change and invest ...
From an LRA Camp to Harvard: The Education of Survivor, Advocate Florence Apuri
Florence Apuri was in high school when she first understood the challenges of educating a girl in northern Uganda. The second of nine children, Florence grew up in a small village in northern Uganda that has experienced the terror of the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. While in her third year of high school, Florence’s uncles brutally beat her father for sending her to school instead of giving her away to marriage so that she could earn a dowry for the family. When she was in college, Florence’s future was again called into question when she was abducted by the ...
Exposing the LRA through Photos, Stories, and Video
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting recently hosted an event to highlight the LRA insurgency that has persisted for over 20 years and has claimed countless innocent lives across Uganda, Sudan, Congo, and the Central African Republic ...