Education is the path out of poverty. Thanks to their career training and education, women can be independent. They can choose their husbands, and as they marry later, have fewer children, and fewer premature infants. There is a far greater chance that all their children will be sent to school. Because of their own career training, they can support siblings, allowing them to be educated as well; parents benefit too; with additional structure and support, they are not forced to give up their land.
We are one world and share it with each other. However, resources and opportunities are still unequally distributed. I am happy to work for more justice. Education is the key to achieve it. Furthermore, I find Africa simply fascinating: the people, the landscapes, the animals, the life.
The future of young people in Africa should not depend on having to emigrate and leave their country. The fact that UECD offers Ugandans from humble backgrounds a perspective in their own country makes volunteering so valuable to me. To support the funding of studies in Uganda, especially for women, means for me a contribution to the advancement of the individual, the country of Uganda and to the promotion of justice and equal opportunities in the world.
I am convinced that aid for developing nations can only work when the nation being helped does not become more dependent as a result. The core element of help is education, giving people the possibility of helping themselves over the long term. It is precisely this which is the aim of UECD, an aim which I support entirely, for when one invests in youth one is investing in the future of a nation and our world.
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