Participant Anna Phillips in the San Diego Sun Times:
"Phillips hopes to work on creating sports programs for Ugandan girls as an educational effort in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Slowing the high rates of HIV infection in northern Uganda was one element of the action statement drafted by the summit participants."

Participant Ryan Schuette for the North Texas Daily:
"The 19th century author Joseph Conrad might have called this small corner of east Africa the 'heart of darkness.' I’m writing to dispel the darkness with the light of an experience, where the calamity of a 30-year rebel conflict collided with youth leadership, many of us from the United States and most from across Uganda."