Fred Obala: working for our future in Northern Uganda: NEW YORK

Thursday, June 23, 2011

NEW YORK

To be in New York here today, Its a grate moment within good moments. Its hard to see it happening but its a dream ever sounded possible that I must see New York and London before my day. its real today and am glad to be here in this city.

What is more is exciting is the reason of my coming here to make speech about former child soldiers. Its going to be powerful evening today with the present of many high profile guest invited by Award International American Challenge and HRH Prince Edward will be present too. I am here as a guest speaker tonight, the KEY message has to reach the whole world that ex-child soldiers are still part of the future and everybody
must help to build them up. support their positive stories and not making them feeling sorry or victims. So honored to be part of it and am calling you to join us. Its a moment that we expect our issues known and delivered to the right desk. come one, come all and
Am glad to have your support please. More will come later and We expect us to be seen on the real issues that matters to the future of this world, not feeling sorry for victims but moving together for a positive world.

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Liz ArgallJune 24, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Congratulations on getting to New York. I wish I could be there, I'm certain you will be terrific.
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My journey

This is me, 2006, no expectation of being a university student or graduate. Working then to get young people, including others who like me were kidnapped as boys to live the horror of being boy soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army ... and the young women who then as girls were dragged away to be enslaved as wives or worse by the LRA. I believe and want others to believe, that we can begin to build decent lives, to strengthen our communities. Much has happened for me in a few years - including finishing my degree and traveling to Europe to make the case for us here. My commitment to community remains strong. I am heavily involved still in strengthening ARDI, the Acoke Rural Development Initiative, which we set up when we were all out there in the village and refugee camp. I pay a lot of the school fees for my brothers and sisters and other children. (It is so hard to get foreign funds for such simple necessities, supporters want to go to big Western organisations not directly to those who need and need confidence.) The only way to build communities is to empower us, to help us with start-up resources and help us build skills and teaching facilities so we can plan and shape and take responsibility for our own lives. No more kidnapping to war - Also let us have no more simple dictation and patronising from charities. Trust us: that is what we need, so we can trust ourselves. Africa has had so much charity dumped on it that too many people sit and wait for it to come from the sky. Change your attitudes so we will change ours.