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Uganda 2020
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In 2010, there were problems of HIV and and sexual abuse. Out of a sample population of 2000 youth aged 10-17, 53% of girls and 13% of boys reported that their first sexual encounters were coerced (world vision).
2010 also happens to be the year that I gave a microloan to a Ugandan widow with children. Of those children, an 11 year old son was abused by a neighbor and subsequently died of the HIV virus in 2012. The event was not rare enough to make a media splash in the area.
But it did make a splash on his older sister.
And she made a difference. She made a difference because she was lucky enough to go to school, to have a mother that could act as a role model, and because she had the terrible misfortune of being haunted by her clever little brother.
She was not the first woman to join a police force in Uganda, but she was the first to leave to become a private investigator. She took herself a microloan in 2016 to begin marketing herself as a specialist in sexual crimes. And she had business. Maybe Uganda was already on the tipping point, maybe the stage was set for a crackdown on sex crimes. Groups like World Vision had been raising awareness for years. But even if it was already the tipping point, the media loved the Ugandan PI.
In 2019 she went out of business. She told reporters it was the single best event of her life.
Now, in 2020, she gives talks and council to police agencies around Africa. Boys and many, many girls are stepping out. There is a new confidence in African youth, a rising belief that they are not helpless, that they can find support when it is most needed. Sex crimes against youth in Uganda are now below nations traditionally respected for low crime rates, such as Canada. And the continental statistics for sex crimes in Africa are about to drop, if our famous Ugandan PI has anything to do with it.
In 2010, there were problems of HIV and and sexual abuse. Out of a sample population of 2000 youth aged 10-17, 53% of girls and 13% of boys reported that their first sexual encounters were coerced (world vision).
2010 also happens to be the year that I gave a microloan to a Ugandan widow with children. Of those children, an 11 year old son was abused by a neighbor and subsequently died of the HIV virus in 2012. The event was not rare enough to make a media splash in the area.
But it did make a splash on his older sister.
And she made a difference. She made a difference because she was lucky enough to go to school, to have a mother that could act as a role model, and because she had the terrible misfortune of being haunted by her clever little brother.
She was not the first woman to join a police force in Uganda, but she was the first to leave to become a private investigator. She took herself a microloan in 2016 to begin marketing herself as a specialist in sexual crimes. And she had business. Maybe Uganda was already on the tipping point, maybe the stage was set for a crackdown on sex crimes. Groups like World Vision had been raising awareness for years. But even if it was already the tipping point, the media loved the Ugandan PI.
In 2019 she went out of business. She told reporters it was the single best event of her life.
Now, in 2020, she gives talks and council to police agencies around Africa. Boys and many, many girls are stepping out. There is a new confidence in African youth, a rising belief that they are not helpless, that they can find support when it is most needed. Sex crimes against youth in Uganda are now below nations traditionally respected for low crime rates, such as Canada. And the continental statistics for sex crimes in Africa are about to drop, if our famous Ugandan PI has anything to do with it.
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Comment by Catherine Gentry on May 4, 2010 at 5:13pm
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Nice story. This is such a tremendous problem; having one's childhood stolen from them...
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