On May 5th in every year, is a day to reflect on freedom, historically freedom from the second world war. But I as a former child soldier in post-war Sierra Leone, and one the founding members of Mind to Change, an organization working to give long term reintegration to former child soldiers and vulnerable youths in society is asking all the organizations that are working in the interest of child soldiers to observe this day as a day of proper freedom for all child soldiers and vulnerable youths world wide, Sierra Leone in particular. children who used to fight war, and the ones that are still fighting wars have no freedom at all.

Every year, 300,000 children are used to fight wars, and in the course of that, they are deprived of their freedom, robbed of their childhood, where they would start to act as an adult. At the end of the war, their freedom can be still seized by policy makers, communities in which they would find themselves and some of the organizations that would pretend to help or take care of them through donor monies as a way of giving them freedom, but yet still they remain in the same position in societies, in the ghettoes, are involve in arm robberies and the war  remain existing with them.

Mind to Change is giving actual freedom to these children (child soldiers) and vulnerable youths, in order to prevent them from being exploited from their past and to stop them from being use in future wars through education and training. As a result of that, Mind to Change is going to regard this day as a day to leave no former child soldiers, child soldiers that are currently in war un help for them to be free for ever. For those that are still war are going to be remembered.

Any body who Visit this site is kindly asked to joined hands to help free these children on that day for freedom for all with an educational support and training as a new weapon to faced new challenges to keep them out of war, which in return will helped their communities. What remains is education and training for sustainable development, and freedom from exploitation, because childhood is not for ever. Education and training is the actual freedom in life, and that implies for all former and current child soldiers world wide. Education and training makes life easy and independent, therefore all children need it. It is a clear means of being free for ever, and can lead to self emotional flow and brings happiness in the life of children. For child soldiers, independent means actual freedom, because that is what they used to fight for, not only the enemies in war, but the enemies after war. New weapon to fight against exploitation, That is the power of education and training.

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