[vvp/teen] Forced To Sin?
Last Tuesday, Nov. 18, Global Kids discussed the issue of child soldiers. Any person under the age of 18 attached to armed forces (government or any other regular/irregular force) is considered to be a child soldier. Africa has the largest number of child soldiers with Asia coming in second. The exact number is unknown because of the extreme difficulty in gaining access to conflict zones. Children as young as 8 are forced to fight and die for independence. Even still, media coverage is rarely seen, if the atrocities are covered at all. Many people are unaware that child soldiers even exist because of this lack of media initiative...
...Global Kids is trying to spread the word and change this. Right now not much is being done to end this endangerment of children. People respond more to visuals so I think more pictures and videos of child soldiers should be circulated. This would expose the issue and get peoples' opinions and ideas out into the open. The more educated people there are the more results we can expect.
