Valentina Frigerio
Italian-born Valentina Frigerio is completing a Masters in International Communication and Development in London. She is looking forward to returning to Africa, where she lived for three years, working as a communications officer with an aid agency in Uganda. She has a strong interest in HIV/AIDS issues since a year with a small Ugandan NGO working with people living with HIV/AIDS, which included co-writing two chapters of a book about AIDS in developing countries.
Challenging assumptions about northern Uganda
Author: Valentina Frigerio
After two years of setbacks since Uganda signed an initial peace agreement with brutal rebels in the north, it's not easy for the region's people to go home and rebuild their lives, especially for the children who have been both the main victims and the perpetrators in two decades of conflict. Everyone's probably underestimated the numbers of children who were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a report says, but many of the girls who were forced to be sex slaves are adapting to civilian life better than humanitarian agencies assume. These women have been targeted for aid, but in fact, U.S. academics say, it's just as hard for other women with less sensational stories. ...
Author: Valentina Frigerio
After two years of setbacks since Uganda signed an initial peace agreement with brutal rebels in the north, it's not easy for the region's people to go home and rebuild their lives, especially for the children who have been both the main victims and the perpetrators in two decades of conflict. Everyone's probably underestimated the numbers of children who were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a report says, but many of the girls who were forced to be sex slaves are adapting to civilian life better than humanitarian agencies assume. These women have been targeted for aid, but in fact, U.S. academics say, it's just as hard for other women with less sensational stories. ...
