“The conflict between our communities had poisoned everything. School should have been the one place we could all belong… but even here, we were still divided. But somewhere along the way, something began to happen…”

Sara’s story illustrate the role that education can play to building peace in conflict-affected context.

Filmed with the support of the Gombe and Mukenza Communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the film gives an overview of the UNICEF Learning for Peace Program which has impacted the lives of over 2 million children and community members in West and Central Africa since 2012.