Award-winning Ugandan education activist Beatrice Ayuru says thousands of girls have reached her dream of a good education for Ugandan children.But she says the struggle to guarantee schooling for all is far from over.Ms. Ayuru spoke to VOA before appearing at a TEDx event in Geneva, Switzerland.TED is a nonprofit group that works to share information and ideas by organizing short, public speeches.For her TED talk, Ms. Ayuru discussed her long and successful struggle to establish a school in a rural area of northern Uganda.In 2000, she opened Lira Integrated School in a poor area of the city of Lira.At the time, the rebel Lord's Resistance Army was terrorizing the area's population with murder, torture and child kidnappings.The story of Ms. Ayuru's activism begins in own childhood. She was one of 16 children in a polygamous family.Her father valued education and supported her desire for it.
