Uganda

“I am six years old, sleeping with nothing but a banana leaf over my shoulders to keep me warm,” begins Orishaba’s essay about her life as a child within her Batwa tribe.

One hundred words. That’s all 17-year-old Joyce Orishaba of Rancho Bernardo was allowed to use to convey the most powerful memories in her life. And it got her published in the New York Times.

Campaigners and environmental activists have described the summit as the most exclusionary they have ever known.

The remote Ugandan district of Gulu is currently a COVID-19 hot spot in the East African country