Queen of the Area QOTA 🇺🇬

This is Legkwo Felix Adupe, a brilliant engineer and my Old Boy (OB) from Dr. Obote College, Boroboro in Lira. At DOC, Felix was an exceptionally bright, deeply committed, and hardworking student who won the respect of everyone around him, he did PCM. He is also an orphan and comes from Pader District, he fought hard to change his background, molding bricks and working school farms on weekends just to compensate for his A-Level fees, as he could narrate. He broke district records at Achol-Pii Army SS, scoring the first 1st grade and a 100% in UNEB math. Supported later by FAWE and the Mastercard Foundation, he graduated from Gulu University with an outstanding Second Class Upper (4.35 CGPA) in Biosystems Engineering, majoring in renewable energy and food security. He even used his student stipends to build his family's first iron-sheet house after theirs burned down, while single-handedly funding his siblings' school fees. This is the heartbreaking reality of Ugandan youth who want a better future but sometimes end up in the hands of the wrong people. While searching for opportunities to fund his Master's dreams, transnational syndicates maliciously trapped him in a human trafficking nightmare in Myanmar and Thailand. I have been reading about these dangerous criminal networks that lure educated, youth by advertising fake, high-paying jobs and good scholarships in Thailand. Once the unsuspecting victims arrive, they are kidnapped, smuggled across the border, and locked inside fortified, militia-run compounds in lawless regions of Myanmar. There, they are chained, tortured, and forced to run online financial and romance scams for up to 19 hours a day. The situation is so severe that the U.S. Department of State has placed Myanmar on Tier 3-the worst possible global rating for human trafficking. We pray he finds his way back home fully healthy. We also pray he gets an alternative path to achieve his academic dreams, practice his engineering, and support his family so that those who pinned their hopes on him can see him thrive. See the video here of how he was requesting for assistance, and you can read his full, inspiring story on the FAWE Uganda page too. faweuganda.org/legkwo-felix-… He has been released from captivity by the armed compounds but he is not yet back home, and he is not in a good health condition. I strongly call upon the Government of Uganda, the Acholi community leaders, and all citizens to urgently throw their full weight and resource support behind the international bodies, EDAN, and Ambassador Betty Bigombe working on the ground. We hope they all come home safe and that all the other 20 are successfully repatriated, and supported, these are very ambitious people who went out to achieve big dreams and they need to be helped. @adoniaayebare @UgandaMediaCent @kasujja @ObothOboth @NUOX_1