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The former child soldier who escaped Joseph Kony's army

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Grace Arach was just 12 when she was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army - a violent group of Ugandan insurgents - and forced to fight as a child soldier. She eventually escaped to Australia, where she is a specialist working with children who have disabilities.
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