Compassion for Peace and Child Survival -SL

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OUR BEGINNING
For 11 years (1991-2002), the nation and the people of Sierra Leone in West Africa, have been subject to the devastation of civil war that originated from a local diamond conflict. With the war over, the people are left to pick up the pieces. How can this young nation recover from th11-year protracted trauma? In the aftermath of the armed conflict where individuals were amputated, many women and young girls were raped, young boys were turned into child soldiers, fathers and mothers to families were killed leaving many widows, and orphans, universities were shut down, with no functioning elementary schools to provide basic education for children, with a broken economic system favouredored corruption creating an environment where poverty has been endemic since the end of the armed conflict. The situation left a scar on its people and communities. How do we rebuild? How do we find hope for a broken people, a broken community and so great that it cannot be quantified.