School meeting - Empowering Children and Youths Sierra Leone

School meeting - Empowering Children and Youths Sierra Leone

Dear all

This is very a fantastic Learning environment.
warm hug
Ibrahim

Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger

Hello Florin Students,

Sorry for the belated reply because I was busy engaging young people in my community in Feeding Minds, Fighting hunger campaign in this past October 16th. I have attached some of the pictures for you on the campaign.I use the gmail acount because its look a bit fast in ataching files


Concerning you reply. First let me say thank you for your great concern and interest to our small learning environment in this small part of the world. Your idea of creating a blog is fabulous. Sorry for not been introducing my self to you earlier on. I am Ibrahim A. Kamara. I am working with iEARN as one of the GCE Educators That Rustin from iEARN USA trained. I am serving as a volunteer teacher in iEARN Sierra Leone and in my community. The children that I teach in my community are children who drop out of school in the 9th and 7th grad of study. Because these two grads are troubed poor children who are struggling to survive in my community.

During 1999 to 2000, Sierra Leone experienced a brutal and a nasty war that engulfed all region of the country and all section of the population. Between 1992 to 1996 more than 4500 children were drawn in to the war as spies, porters, sex slaves, carriers and combatant for the Revolution United Front [RUF], the National Armey and the civil defense force [CDF]. In January 1999, the country experienced and unprecedented orgy of violence, destruction and untold human suffering. Close to fifty thousand [50,000] people were killed or maimed in the process and other three hundred thousand [300,000] persons were initially displace. The paradox of the brutal war was that children were it most vulnerable victims as well as some of it most vicious prosecutors. These three military groups use children who where 15 years and younger in combat and support roles in their war effort. They feed drugs to their underage combatants encouraged them to commit atrocities and deployed them in dangerous front line position.

After the war, there are Thousands of children who found themselves totally displace along the street of Freetown. 85% where orphans and 15% where single parent. Some manage to enrolled themselves in school by the small income their earning by Begging, Carrying loads for traders, sex working. Others engage in others jobs. Some of them have tried all the way to reach the peak but they unfortunately drop out of school at the high school education.



Concerning the documentary that I am planning to do, it is all about the young people I am working with that experienced the bitterness of war. The young people will share their stories to show people across the world how it feels like for their present lives after their child hood days were snatched by their elders who they considered to be the ones to help them.

Now they are moving on after they have been drugged, given loads to carry on their heads and been tought how to kill their own parents and loved ones beyond their wish.

They were kids so they didn’t know what they were doing and they were forced beyond their wish.

In present day live they are discriminated against, many people do not want them to mingle with their children therefore they live in small groups in market places, streets, front of shops, pubs ghettos and slums.

There will be an interview of their experience during the war and their lives after the war.

Warm regards

Ibrahim

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