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You're watching UNICEF television. Prosi Anena is just 15 but she does her

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schoolwork diligently. Like almost any Ugandan child she helps her mother in

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their small garden and prepares food for her siblings. But like many northern

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Ugandan children she suffered a terrible trauma. Prosi was abducted by the Lord's

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Resistance Army and for two years was kept away from her family. I was

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abducted from our village at Unyama. She had to babysit the rebel children and

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carry heavy loads. They were constantly on the move and had to loot food from

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villagers to keep from starving. The effects of the conflict on children in

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Uganda is hard to quantify but abducted girls often have no opportunity for

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education. Some of them might have been abducted when they are still very young

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and when they come back they feel they cannot fit now the level of education

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where they stopped. The shot that released Prosi hit her in the foot. She

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was left for dead and was helped by the Ugandan military. Though she missed two

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years of her life she went back to finish primary school. She now wants to

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be a nurse. What I see today is that education is wealth. It will mean that

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I'll be able to support my parents. This is David McKenzie reporting for UNICEF

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television in northern Uganda. Unite for Children.