Child Soldiers

My name is Morris Matadi and I'm a Liberian former child soldier who participated from the ages of 11 to 20. I can remember that my dad asked me one day at the dinner table who I really wanted to be, and I said I wanted to become an air…

Strolling down the street after school one day, fifteen-year-old Jemal Damtawe never imagined his life was going to change so much he would not even remember civil life anymore. As young teenagers in Ethiopia, Jemal and his friends were…

After many years of war, the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo had to rebuild their country and Balezi Bagunda in his own small way chose to do this with boxing. Setting up his small boxing training centre in Goma, a small town…

What do child soldiers and a UNICEF child protection expert have in common? Not much. But when Congolese Iranian Human Rights Lawyer, Priscillia Hoveyda finds herself before a child soldier hoping to convince the child to seek recovery…

As a 13-year-old child, on the run after losing his family to civil war, he clinged for hope as he wandered into a military base camp. Yearning for safety, food and shelter, Ishmael Beah along with other young children envisioned their…