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Mar 12, 2015

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." --Demosthenes

From Forgotten Prisoner to University Graduate

After spending a year visiting prisons and witnessing the conditions experienced by prisoners in Uganda, Ashoka Fellow, Alex McLean, founded the African Prisons Project. The African Prisons Project seeks to restore a sense of self-worth and hope to prisoners in Uganda and Kenya in the belief that all humans deserve to be treated with dignity and that societal change can result from such measures. Read about the stories of Moses and Susan, graduates of the African Prisons Project, and see how amazing change can result when someone makes the most of a presented opportunity.