22 Feb 2016
 Growing up, Thomas Oloya knew he wanted to help people through his work. He was born in 1986 near Gulu, in northern Uganda, one year before the region became centre stage for attacks by the rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army. He lived the horrors of conflict. "It was a time of turmoil and fear," Thomas says. "I used to sleep with my shoes on, ready to run at any moment." Abducted on three occasions by the rebels, he lost his mother and sister in 2004.