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Article: IFESH Gives Child Soldiers a Second Chance at Life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa.
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- February 14, 2005
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- IFESH, The International Foundation for Education and Self-Help, has received a $900,000 grant from The World Bank Group to expand its child soldier repatriation programs in The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Africa. Those programs help counsel and train children, some as young as eight or nine years old, who were forced to become child soldiers in order to survive.
"The Democratic Republic of the Congo has one of the largest populations of child soldiers in the world," said Jeff Ratcliffe, the IFESH Program Coordinator for northern Katanga Province in the DRC. Ratcliffe heads up IFESH's Demobilization and ...