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In Uganda, art teaches people how to treat animals respectfully

Stephen Odoch, a co-founder of Art for Animals in Uganda, paints a mural as children look on.

It’s a bright blue afternoon in Uganda, and under a mango tree in the courtyard of an elementary school, 12 students are making an impassioned plea for respect and dignity.

“Why deny our comrades a right to love and care?” they chant in unison. “Let’s stand up and challenge the evil!”

In northern Uganda, where the memory of two decades of brutal civil war sits just under the surface of daily life, these kinds of calls for peace and social harmony aren’t uncommon. What is unusual, however, is the

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