A LITTLE ABOUT SIERRA LEONE...

• BORDERED BY: Guinea and Liberia
• NATURAL RESOURCES: gold, bauxite, and rutile
• GOVERNMENT: constitutional monarchy
• GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION:

WAR IN SIERRA LEONE...

• WHEN DID IT BEGIN: started in March 1991
• WHAT OCCURRED: RUF developed in 1991, tried to overthrow the government
• CHILD SOLDIERS:d soldiers are used for horrible acts because, being at a young age they are at a impresionable age, and sent to the front lines of combat.

• WHERE ARE THE CHILD SOLDIERS??
• Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria and Yemen
• Many of these country's are using child for military uses or sexual purposes

WHAT GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS ARE HELPING?

• Cultures of Resistance Network: campaign against child soldiers
• Child Soldiers international: they help child soldiers get access to school and transition into society, with all the help they need.
• Coalition to Stop the use of Child Soldiers: promote their rehabilitation and reintegration to society

WHAT IS THE UN DOING TO HELP?

• Launched a campaign to end recruitment of child soldiers
• UN has gotten 8 government to sign a 'action plan' to stop child soldiers

ISHMAEL BEAH

• AGE: 36 years old
• WHERE IS HE NOW?: a novelist, lives in New York, but in a few years 'return home' to Sierra Leone to his family
• COLLEGE: Oberlin College, Ohio

MUSIC INFLUENCE: Music to Ishmael was like an escape from his everyday reality

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCK99wHrk0

^ here's a video of some of the music Ishmael liked ^

FUN FACTS

• Earned a political science degree
• Graduated high school from the UN International School.
• Lived with a foster parent named Laura Simms

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ozsOLdgp_y0

^ this is a video about what Ishmael experienced as a child soldier and