Today, I invited 20 year-old Sandra Uwiringiyimana to tell her story to the UN Security Council. Sandra was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where war repeatedly forced her to abandon her education and her community. When she was 10, her family fled to Burundi, where they sought refuge in a camp called Gatumba. The camp was attacked months after they arrived, and Sandra saw many members of her family murdered, including her six-year-old sister. Sandra is now a college student in the United States, where she started a foundation to help survivors like her. To see Sandra today is to see the potential of all children whose destinies hang in the balance. Sandras held captive in Nigeria; Sandras suffering in Syria; Sandras fleeing massacres in the Central African Republic. Children who, like Sandra, have a world to change. We must do more to ensure that they can.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 23:38:44 +0000
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