Farming reform to stop climate change: a young Ugandan's Costa Rica mission


A young Ugandan studying agriculture in Central America has big plans to return home and help African farming become more climate-friendly.

Tom Okot, who was internally displaced from his war-torn home region of Northern Uganda, is a student at Earth University, in Costa Rica.

He was one of the 60 winners of a multilingual essay contest  who visited UN Headquarters in July, to take part in a global youth forum.

His winning essay was in Spanish, a language he learnt from scratch after arriving in Costa Rica.

Tom, who speaks 10 different dialects and languages, told UN Radio’s Matthew Wells in an interview how his multilingual skills first surfaced.

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SOURCE: UN Radio