Safety Child Soldiers

Personal Saftey Child Soldiers.

What is Personal Safety Personal safety refers not only to physical safety but freedom from physical harm but also to mental safety, which involves freedom from worries about physical safety as well as being victimized by hostility, aggression, and harassment. Valuing physical and mental safety means inforcement not only bright lights, but also a welcoming, respectful environment.

How Does Personal Saftey Affect Child Soldiers.Child Soldiers are from the ages of 7 to 18 years old. Their basic freedoms are completely taken away from them. They are separated from what they know such as their families and villages. They are exposed to harsh and brutal experiences including murder. This turns the kids into killers and they do not know peace. Some young girl soldiers are even forced to marry adult men and have children at young ages.

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Who is Helping Child Soldiers There are many organizations such as the United Nations and the IRC (International Rescue Committee) that help to provide protection, health care and emotional support to the children who have escaped or been rescued from the amed forces. Other programs also provide counselling and help the child soldiers to get back into society.

How Can Personal Safety Help Child Soldiers to Re-integrate into SocietyChildren are the future resource and need to have the basic and fundamental rights to life, education and family Education can be a crucial component of rehabilitation and reintegration into society for children once recruited to fight who have not had the opportunity to educate them selves. Reintegration of children to be serious challenge, and the methods adopted have varied from one country to another While some restricted the process to keeping children in school or in vocation, others have gone a step further to provide psychological support to those traumatized by years of involvement in horrendous crimes. Religious leaders and traditional healers systematically organised special purification ceremonies for child and adult ex-soldiers who were re-entering the community. The ceremonies were also a process of forgiveness by the community.

Why Do Children Join Child Soldiers Most children become child soldiers because they are poor and they already are living in areas that have war. Some kids get beaten until they become child soldiers. Some children are requested by their families and communities to play their part in defence of their community. Most children who become child soldiers is not because they do it out of their own free will, it is because they are forced to fight the adult war.

Why Do Child Soldiers ExistChild soldiers exist because rebels don’t have enough soldiers so they have to recruit children and they are easier to convince than adults. Rebels make the children not know who their parents are. After several days the children will be completely changed into someone else, they will be brainwashed to inocent children.