The State We're In, 8 October 2011. This week: a woman who’s helped make the joyful reunion of former child soldiers and their families possible. A university professor recalls nearly becoming the teacher he hated, and a woman from Honduras who risked everything to save her husband from government brutality.
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Children of War
Jane Ekayu is a therapist who works with former child soldiers in Uganda – children who were forcibly conscripted into the Lord’s Resistance Army. Jane talks about the abuses the children suffered and the time the kids confronted a former LRA leader at the rehabilitation centre where she worked.
Reunion
Jane tells show host Jonathan Groubert about the incredible reunion one former boy soldier has with his family who thought he was dead, and the other touchstone moments which drive her to do this difficult work (more photos below).
Jane’s new organization is Children of Peace Uganda
Jane Ekayu is featured in the documentary film Children of War
David Dunne grew up in 1950s Ireland where brutality was part of the teaching arsenal. He later became an award-winning professor at an elite business school in Canada.
But one day not long ago, he had a run-in with a student and nearly became the teacher he’d always hated.
Still, he believes teaching can transform lives, including his own (photo below).
Nora Lopez's husband, Eduardo, was a human rights activist in Honduras. After being tortured by government officials, he was denied refugee status by Canada. And then he was murdered by a Honduran death squad.
Nora and her three children had to get out of the country before the same thing happened to them (more photos below).
This documentary was produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and is part of the international series RNW participates in - Global Perspective
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Hi Jane,
Great to hear from you and you're welcome! Keep us up to date on the progress of your new organization.
All the best, Jonathan
Special thanks to Radio Netherlands worldwide, for supporting Children of War film and children of Peace Uganda-CPU to make known the plight of children in war affected areas and now the need for rebuilding the lives of these children to become Ambassadors of Peace. Kindly, join Jane Ekayu, Bryan Single and others through CPU, in Raising Peace Ambassadors from former child Soldiers and children born in captivity, in Northern Uganda. Johnathan Groubert, Thank you.
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