Child Protection
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Jan-22-2025 | Child ProtectionFrom Soldiers to Scholars
*Sanya was born in a village, where childhood ends before it begins. By age seven, she could already identify the sound of different weapons and knew which parts of the jungle were safe to hide in. Her parents, like others in the village, spent their days coaxing crops from storm-ravaged soil or descending into makeshift ...
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Jan-22-2025 | Child ProtectionSCF Program Helps a Tribal Girl Fight for Change
Violence shapes childhoods. Fifteen-year-old *Pearl knows this truth in her bones. Born to a nomadic tribe in Northern Mindanao, she grew up where gunfire echoes through mountain passes and military operations threaten daily life. Her tribe cannot farm—their nomadic lifestyle and constant conflict make it impossible. To survive, they forage in dangerous jungles and hunt ...
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Jan-23-2022 | Child ProtectionNew Children’s Home
Two of INfire’s church leaders in Myanmar know firsthand what it means to be at risk for child soldiering. They are actually both former child soldiers and graduates from INfire’s education programs. And they have built some amazing connections that will give the same opportunity to dozens of more children just like them.
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Dec-13-2021 | Project-AK47The First Footage of Child Soldiers I Ever Saw
Years ago, I gave my friend Sam a video camera and asked him to find us the darkest place we could serve. The footage he came back with broke me.
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Sep-13-2020 | Child ProtectionChildren At Risk
Throughout the Bible, we see stories of children enduring remarkable hardship. We also see the emphasis Jesus placed on the importance of children in his teachings. One theme that is present in many of these stories is that the children are often NOT removed from their location.
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Aug-30-2020 | MJY StrategiesProtecting Children from Conflict
One of those difficult questions is whether or not it is best to keep children in the homes of their families. This is a question I get asked a lot, and it is certainly a question worth asking. Of course, the ideal situation for children is to be with their families. However, in the contexts in which our organization works, that may not always be the case.
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Jul-01-2019 | Project-AK47Local Spirits vs Education
…They thought that if they allowed their children to study that evil spirits would curse their family and they would all die.
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Apr-21-2019 | Project-AK47Leaders Without Guns
This area is favorable for rebel armies and for good reason...
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Jan-21-2019 | Project-AK47I am afraid to be a soldier
“Whenever people talk about guns, soldiers, or the war, I feel afraid…”
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Dec-10-2018 | Project-AK47I was afraid I would not see my parents again…
I was afraid I would not see my parents again before I died.
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Oct-02-2018 | Project-AK47Help Us Keep Students Out of Combat
“Most of these kids, if they cannot go to school, they marry at 13 years old, 15 years old…either they marry or they go into the army?”
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Oct-16-2017 | Project-AK47The Snowflake Effect of Rescue
Impact. That is what changed Zeyar’s life and the lives he’s pouring into today.
Impact is like a snowflake that ever-so-gently floats down and lands on a snowy mountaintop. It has the potential to shift the weight of the mountain, no matter how seemingly small. Snowflake after snowflake, impact after impact, a final snowflake shifts all the snow underneath it. Soon an avalanche is created changing the face of the mountain itself; it's reformed by an impact that gained momentum and created a movement that affected everything in its path.
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Aug-24-2017 | StoriesMeet The Boy Who Escaped
“I regret everything,” whispered Karim.
In 2009, a group of men offered young Karim roughly 300 US dollars a month for what he thought was military training. After three months he was released and instructed to go home and wait. He returned to his normal life and didn’t hear anything for more than 8 years.
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Sep-13-2016 | Child SoldieringHope In the Midst of Conflict
Myanmar (Burma) remains unsettled and continues to maintain some of the highest numbers of child soldiers on the planet. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader for the national democracy movement of Myanmar, faces many challenges in her plans for peace. In her Aug. 31 speech, Suu Kyi pledged to establish a "democratic federal union." But just a day earlier, a military spokesman dismissed the term, saying it did not comply with the 2008 constitution drafted by the military.
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Apr-26-2016 | Child SoldieringFormer Child Soldier Speaks to Students in Charlottesville
Have you heard the story of Emmanuel Jal? We shared his incredible testimony a few months ago with our blog readers. A man of many talents, Jal is a recording artist, actor, and activist. Most importantly though, as a former child soldier in South Sudan, he has dedicated his life to changing the world through peace.