Help ex-rebels, former captives
Mar 11, 2008
EDITOR’S COMMENT<br><br>FORMER LRA spokesman Sam Kolo beat over 80 boys and girls who had joined A’ Level straight from O’ Level, to top Alliance High School in Gulu, where he sat for his exams. He scored 15 points. While cynics might scoff at this in today’s highly competitive academic en
EDITOR’S COMMENT
FORMER LRA spokesman Sam Kolo beat over 80 boys and girls who had joined A’ Level straight from O’ Level, to top Alliance High School in Gulu, where he sat for his exams. He scored 15 points. While cynics might scoff at this in today’s highly competitive academic environment, it is no mean feat for a man of Kolo’s circumstances.
Having spent about 20 years in the bush, it was, in the first place, commendable that Kolo chose to go back to school and improve himself, while many of his compatriots were thinking of either re-joining the rebellion, or having the Government give them freebies. Secondly, that he excelled at his first sitting of the exams is noteworthy. he has now appealed to the Government and other donors to sponsor him for higher education.
This is not something only Kolo needs. Able and willing funders should encourage as many of the former rebel captives and the former rebels themselves to study beyond merely attaining basic literacy and numeracy. Kolo wants to become an economist. Who knows what the rest will become?
FORMER LRA spokesman Sam Kolo beat over 80 boys and girls who had joined A’ Level straight from O’ Level, to top Alliance High School in Gulu, where he sat for his exams. He scored 15 points. While cynics might scoff at this in today’s highly competitive academic environment, it is no mean feat for a man of Kolo’s circumstances.
Having spent about 20 years in the bush, it was, in the first place, commendable that Kolo chose to go back to school and improve himself, while many of his compatriots were thinking of either re-joining the rebellion, or having the Government give them freebies. Secondly, that he excelled at his first sitting of the exams is noteworthy. he has now appealed to the Government and other donors to sponsor him for higher education.
This is not something only Kolo needs. Able and willing funders should encourage as many of the former rebel captives and the former rebels themselves to study beyond merely attaining basic literacy and numeracy. Kolo wants to become an economist. Who knows what the rest will become?