Liberia Lost Childhood Project

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Liberia Lost Childhood Project

Erzhena Boudeyava Edgar Hütte
Cheryl Menzel Scott Stephens
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Stolen Childhood Project
Liberia

• Overview
• Introduction War Child , WC United Kingdom,
  Stolen Childhood Project
  
• Education facilities
• Educational activities
• Counseling services
• Reuniting children with their families
• Financing War Childs Stolen Childhood Project
• Conclusions

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Stolen Childhood Project
Liberia
War Child United Kingdom Mission
War Child UK is an International Relief and Deve
lopment Agency, dedicated to providing immediate,
effective and sustainable aid to children
affected by war in order to build peace, resolve
conflict and empower future generations.
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Stolen Childhood Project
Liberia
Organizational Structure
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Stolen Childhood Project
Liberia

• Liberia
• Civil strife until 1997
• Elections ? Charles Taylor
• Authoritarian regime, unrest,
  instability, corruption, support to Sierra Leone
  rebels.
  
• 2003 Taylor flees, transitional government

• Problems
• 4,000 5,000 child soldiers
• High infant mortality, illiteracy, HIV/AIDS
  rates
  
• Violence
• Bad economic situation

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Stolen Childhood Project
Liberia
Liberia Stolen Childhood Project
Vision Contributing to peace and stability with
in Liberia and the wider region of Western
Africa. Mission Sustainable aid of child soldi
ers in the process of reintegration into Liberian
society. Program purpose Reintegrate the 1,000
children currently housed in Don Bosco housing
in Monrovia, Robertsport and Gelahun back into
society.
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Stolen Childhood Project
Liberia
Liberias Stolen Childhood Project
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Stolen Childhood Project
Activities
Liberia
Education facilities

• 4 different centers
• 5 class rooms in each center
• A teacher-child ratio of 50/1

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Stolen Childhood Project
Activities
Liberia
Educational activities

• Literacy Skills
• Basic Mathematics
• Development of Social and Work Related Skills
• Provision of tools to succeed
• Textbooks
• Computers
• Writing materials

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Stolen Childhood Project
Activities
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Counseling services

• 4 different centers
• 1 permanent counselor per facility with one
  available floater
  

• Goals
• Development of psychosocial aptitudes
• Development of adjustment skills
• Development of social skills

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Stolen Childhood Project
Activities
Liberia
Reuniting Children with their Families

• 1 full-time social worker working with Save the
  Children representatives and local, regional and
  national authorities

• Goals
• Reunite as many families as possible
• Provide children with a support structure
  outside of War Child

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Stolen Childhood Project
Activities
Liberia
Financing of War Child Stolen Childhood Project

• Main expenses are attached to salaries of staff
• Total Project cost of USD 840,801.

• Why?
• Service is much needed
• Can provide these children with opportunities
• Provides a far greater service in the aggregate
  towards the peace and stability of future
  generations in Liberia

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Conclusions
The social need for the War Childs Stolen
Childhood Project is great.

• "If child soldiers are not fully demobilized and
  disarmed and provided with the necessary skill
  training, our fear is that there could be more
  conflicts in the future since they have been
  exposed to war."
• Paul Najue, director of Don Basco Homes
• Literacy and Education Programs
• Counseling Services
• Reuniting Families