United Movement to End Child Soldiering

Our Northern Uganda Education Program sponsors vulnerable, war- affected youth, including former child soldiers, in secondary school through higher education graduation who then return to their high- poverty communities as healthcare professionals, educators, engineers, civil society organization officers and as other skilled professionals enhancing community development. Program highlights this year include that thirteen of our students graduated from their university degree programs in education, science education (agriculture), economics, public administration, business administration, development studies and quantitative economics. All students in this program have now completed higher education programs. (Continued on Schedule O.)

Our A-Factor Project (A for Agriculture), part of our Education-for- All strategies is a developing program designed to shift the paradigm from donor-dependence to fund secondary, vocational and technical school and higher education to self-reliance through youth-led agricultural entrepreneurship. Youth will be trained in modernized agriculture, environmental conservation and entrepreneurship to fund their educations through sustainable agricultural enterprises. Multiplier effects include that environmental conservation and natural resources management help to avert hunger, malnutrition, drought and floods, reduce conflict, enhance local economies and contribute to sustainable livelihoods. Planning continued for future implementation.

Our Peace Education and Guidance and Counseling Program in Secondary Schools provides peace education classes, guidance/life skills classes and seminars, individual and group counseling services and training as peer mediators and peer counselors to war-affected youth in Northern Uganda secondary schools to help prevent new wars, build peaceful schools and communities and prepare youth to become lifelong peacebuilding practitioners. Planning continued for new scale-up models for future implementation.