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In another part of the world, on the other side of this globe, in the northern districts of Uganda, 30,000 children have been abducted in the past 20 some years. Most every family in the Acholi and now Langi area has been affected. Many families have lost a child through abduction, or their village was attacked and destroyed, families burned out and/or killed, and harvests destroyed by an army of abducted children known as The Lord’s Resistance Army. The countryside is virtually empty and people have moved into safe villages that are supposed to be protected by the government, but that has often been in words but not in deed.  At night the children of the north flee into towns to sleep, fearing that they might be abducted

Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

ave kids done? Well, Anne Frank touched millions with her powerful account of the Holocaust, Ruby Bridges helped end segregation in the United States, and, most recently, Charlie Simpson helped to raise 120,000 pounds for Haiti on his little bike. So,

Kids can be full of inspiring aspirations and hopeful thinking

Supported by UNFPA, UNICEF and UNIFEM, the centre is the first of its kind in Rwanda, providing medical, psychosocial, investigation and legal assistance to survivors of violence. Since its opening in July 2009, it has assisted more than 500 women, men and children. Another centre, built on this model, will be opened shortly in Rusizi District in western Rwanda.

If we lived in a country where a real thinker like Ted Sizer, rather than clueless managerial types and cliché-spouting politicians, got to be the Secretary of Education, maybe we wouldn’t need his wisdom so badly.

Schizphrenia is charterized by premorbid intellectual deifict, onset of psychosis in late adolescence, and psychological deteriration in adulthood. The pathophysiology of the desease involves both genes and enviroment.