Currently some 300,000 children around the world are being denied their childhood. Often kidnapped from their homes and forced into armed conflicts as both combatants and sexual slaves, these are the child soldiers and their story is rarely told. While issues like HIV/AIDS global poverty are given such a public arena, many of us students, are completely unaware of this other reality in which children our age are forced to kill. Our goal is to begin by telling their story.
We will use this blog not to post updates about our club but rather to answer questions about the issue itself: Where are the child soldiers? What do they have to do? How did they become that way? And of course, what are the ways we can help solve this problem?
While all crowding under the same blood-logged umbrella term, every child soldier in every country where they exist has his or her own story. We'll try to capture the complexities of each unique situation as well (though not perfectly) as possible.
Each update will focus on a different country where child soldiering is a significant problem, and will offer enough information about the conflict to allow you to go and get involved yourself.
We will use this blog not to post updates about our club but rather to answer questions about the issue itself: Where are the child soldiers? What do they have to do? How did they become that way? And of course, what are the ways we can help solve this problem?
While all crowding under the same blood-logged umbrella term, every child soldier in every country where they exist has his or her own story. We'll try to capture the complexities of each unique situation as well (though not perfectly) as possible.
Each update will focus on a different country where child soldiering is a significant problem, and will offer enough information about the conflict to allow you to go and get involved yourself.
