Shocking Reality of War Comes Into the Classroom the Same Age, but Worlds Apart, Schoolchildren Are Learning First-Hand About the Horror of Life for Africa's Child Soldiers, by Stephen Naysmith
The Herald › November 06, 2009
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'WE have a simple message for the young women we work with. We start where you have stopped, " Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe explains.
She's talking about the brutalised former child soldiers she works with every day at St Monica Girls' Relief in Gulu, northern Uganda.See the full content of this document
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Shocking Reality of War Comes Into the Classroom the Same Age, but Worlds Apart, Schoolchildren Are Learning First-Hand About the Horror of Life for Africa's Child Soldiers, by Stephen Naysmith
Their lives generally stopped when they were kidnapped, often as young as seven years old, and taken from their homes or schools to train to fight in the country's vicious 22-year civil war.
Their kidnappers, the sel...See the full content of this document
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