Our Change Voices guest this week is the award-winning Agnes Igoye who is Uganda’s deputy national coordinator for the prevention of trafficking in persons and heads up Uganda’s Immigration Training Academy. She is also a 2018 Aspen New Voices Fellow.

Agnes escaped human traffickers at age 14 when the Lord’s Resistance Army raided her village. Since then, she’s built a centre for human-trafficking survivors, trained over 2,000 law enforcement officials to counter human trafficking, and fundraised for and delivered almost 100 000 textbooks to educate vulnerable children.

Not surprisingly, she has been named as one of New African Magazine’s 100 most influential Africans and is the winner of the 2016 Diane von Furstenberg International Award, University of Minnesota’s Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals, and she made the 2017 Clinton Global Initiative University Alumni Honour Roll.

She met our host, Paula Fray in Kampala and spoke about challenging cultural perceptions and the influence of her father in bringing up feminist daughters. She also shares her story about the Lord’s Resistance Army, human trafficking and how she got inspired to build a rehabilitation centre for women survivors of human trafficking.

Please be warned, some of these issues might be difficult to listen to.

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