The meeting has been organized so that I can hear what refugees in southern Ikafe want to tell me. Everywhere I go people speak of the importance of education. An education in English for their children is one of the main reasons people say they came to Uganda. Children are our future,' says Johnson Mayen, deputy headteacher and an adviser to the Dinka people in Ikafe. We need to stay here so that they can continue their education.
Education is our last weapon.
But I want my daughter Loyce to go. She is already attending nursery school. In Sudan the war interrupted our children's education. This means that we will not have enough people to run our country when we finally get back on our feet. Even primary children are having to learn in Arabic.