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This year’s Young Ambassadors for the Global Campaign for Education are Maisie le Masurier and Rebecca Unwin who have just returned from a trip to Uganda where they investigated the barriers that many children with disabilities, including visual difficult

Maisie le Masurier and Rebecca Unwin are the 2014 Young Ambassadors for the Send My Friend to School campaign. They have just returned from a trip with the charity Sightsavers and the Global Campaign for Education to Uganda, where 22 per cent of primary-aged children are not in school.

A high proportion of the country’s population suffers from visual and mobility disabilities, which can lead to a chronic cycle of poverty. It is children with disabilities who have the greatest obstacles to face in getting a quality education.

Maisie and Rebecca met some of these children and also saw some steps towards progress in delivering quality education for all. Here are some extracts from their trip diary.

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