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We are a team of 13 Karimojong researchers, young men and women aged between 20 and29, of the Matheniko, Bokora and Tepeth groups. We come from Moroto, Napak and NakapiripiritDistricts of Karamoja Sub-Region, Uganda. In November 2011 we set out to research thesituation of youth in our area and this book is our findings and conclusions. Some of us have notbeen to school, some have been to school and some to university. This combination of people whoread and write and those who speak and hear is the strength of this research – we have gainedaccess to people, knowledge and ideas that would not have been possible otherwise.Those who gave advice on how to do the research surprised us by insisting that we ask our ownquestions, take our own photos and decide what should be in this book. So the purpose of theresearch, the way we did the work and conclusions that we present are all from us. We are gratefulto the team from the Pastoralist Communication Initiative, the Institute of Development Studiesand community elder Logwee John Bosco for their guidance and advice. The work was commissionedand supported by the youth-led development agency, Restless Development Uganda, andfunded by UNFPA and DFID.We, the research team, chose the words and stories for this book.We took the photographs and selected which ones to use.3