Background
The world watched as Liberian kids as young as 10 years old were exploited as armed combatants. Under threat of death, they committed terrible acts of violence against the Liberian society. Many turned to substance abuse to cope with their experiences. In partnership with IDEFOC, our program named Botanical Reintegration Village aims to provide groups of former child soldiers a three-month program to help them recover from their trauma and obtain the skills necessary for social reintegration.
Stakeholder collaboration
For Action10 and HR&S, managing stakeholder relationships is of the utmost importance, and we constantly aim to be a trust-worthy and capable partner. Three of these are the Target Partners we work with, the donors, as well as international and national implementing partners.
We empower every key stakeholder; through our development programmes, our target partners in lower income countries and our investors, as well as the international and the national implementing partners.
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Background
The world watched as Liberian kids as young as 10 years old were exploited as armed combatants. Under threat of death, they committed terrible acts of violence against the Liberian society. Many turned to substance abuse to cope with their experiences. In partnership with IDEFOC, our program named Botanical Reintegration Village aims to provide groups of former child soldiers a three-month program to help them recover from their trauma and obtain the skills necessary for social reintegration.
Project update
Recently, we have expanded our amazing group of people working in Liberia to support the important efforts by our partners to help reintegrate former child soldiers in the society. Finding people with the right motivation is not always easy and it is cruical for us to work with people that are interested in sustainable long-term solutions. Hence, we want to be diligent when involving more people in the organisation and with our partners.
Moreover, we are in discussion of launching another project aimed to help parents fund their child's/children's tuition. This will be done by offering lending as well as employment opportunities which can hopefully offer a sustainable source of funding to make sure that children get the education that they deserve.
Thank you for your contributions!
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Background
The world watched as Liberian kids as young as 10 years old were exploited as armed combatants. Under threat of death, they committed terrible acts of violence against the Liberian society. Many turned to substance abuse to cope with their experiences. In partnership with IDEFOC, our program named Botanical Reintegration Village aims to provide groups of former child soldiers a three-month program to help them recover from their trauma and obtain the skills necessary for social reintegration.
The HR&S RISE agency support package
With the new year we have introduced a new concept, called RISEagency, to enable us to work proactively with the challenges we face and will identify in the future. This will hopefully serve as a tool to improve the outcome of Action10's, HR&S' and our partners' efforts in Africa.
RISEagency is here defined as the capacity of individuals to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential in research, innovation and social enterprising in areas with fragile infrastructure.
The aim with the HR&S RISEagency support package is to address the challenges related to that our operations are implemented in aid prone areas where receivers of aid, the population and its governments, have become aid dependent and donor driven but the givers of aid lack evidence for sustainable impact, where truth and trust has become fragile, and corruption has become a social norm.
We use the ROPE management strategy and thus continuously improve and strengthen the RISEagency support package as we learn lessons and take informed decisions. The RISEagency support package is composed of inputs to activities that have been identified as outcome challenges to the ambition RISEagency. The sustainable impact is establishing institutions with the capacity to ensure RISEagency.
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Backgound
The world watched as Liberian kids as young as 10 years old were exploited as armed combatants. Under threat of death, they committed terrible acts of violence against the Liberian society. Many turned to substance abuse to cope with their experiences. In partnership with IDEFOC, our program named Botanical Reintegration Village aims to provide groups of former child soldiers a three-month program to help them recover from their trauma and obtain the skills necessary for social reintegration.
Project update
Our programme management partner in Liberia was recently interviewed by BBC on his time as a child soldier and on his work with providing education for other former child soldiers, giving back to the community. Morris describes how his dreams and his future was left behind when he was recruited as a child soldier from the age of 11 to the age of 20. He further explains how former child soldiers have difficulties in the upbringing of their children and how some are involved in crime and drugs. Hence, Morris wants to contribute to the community and help these people by offering school training to almost 300 children.
To see the whole interview, please navigate to the link below.
Once again, thank you for your support!
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Background
The world watched as Liberian kids as young as 10 years old were exploited as armed combatants. Under threat of death, they committed terrible acts of violence against the Liberian society. Many turned to substance abuse to cope with their experiences. In partnership with IDEFOCS, our program named Botanical Reintegration Village aims to provide groups of former child soldiers a three-month program to help them recover from their trauma and obtain the skills necessary for social reintegration.
Project update
We are currently assessing opportunities to increase the impact and contribution in the village we operate in. One way of doing this is to expand our partnerships with different types of companies in the area. More simple projects, in partnership with employers, which aim to help employees have been tested and the outcome has been successful. We aim to provide more information on these projects in the future.
Moreover, IDEFOCS is currently working to break the stigma around zogos in the Liberia. Zogos refers to the marginalised youth in Liberia where many of them are child-soldier and ex-combatants. The situation and stigma surrounding this remains a challenge. However, our partners are continously working to overcome this.
Thank you!
We are working to support our local partners and the villagers in Liberia to be able to reintegrate former child soldiers. Your contributions have been and are crucial for the project and we are very thankful for this. Thank you!
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