Seme Luate Cons Lomoro is a 22-year-old GPE youth leader based in Uganda. He is based in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in the Yumbe District in Uganda, after fleeing his hometown of Yei in South Sudan in 2016 as an unaccompanied minor. In BidiBidi, he enrolled in the projects of I CAN South Sudan, a youth- and refugee-led organization founded in 2017, which aims to advance the rights and wellbeing of displaced children and women. After graduating from the children’s group, Seme began volunteering with I CAN South Sudan to support fellow unaccompanied minors. Promoted to Project Officer, he recently managed a project called Disability is not a Burden that aims to identify, assess and enroll refugee children in school, train teachers and parents and provide assistive learning devices to children with disabilities.

He participated in the High-Level Financing Conference for Education Cannot Wait, representing the ECW youth- and student-led subgroup, where he spoke passionately about the need to include young people, especially those with lived experience of displacement, in solutions to education in emergencies at the local, national and global level. Seme is passionate about access to quality education and demanding real commitment and funding from decision makers for his right to education, and the rights of other children and young people forced to flee their homes.