CHILD SOLDIER

This child is playing the role of an insurgent leader in a children's war play off in Mogadishu streets, they are absolutely affected by the Jihad and the impact on them is seen while they devide themselves into groups and use the names of the warring parts and fight each other.

COMMENT: Every day, a Somali child is killed as a fighter, more than 30% of the fighters now are children under the age of 15, most of them hired by the fighting groups to use them in the war, and train them how to kill people.

the children are vulnerable because they don't have schools, they don't have food, they don't have shelter, and when they go to the fighters' camps to ask something to eat they are urged to join the fighters, this is catastrophe.
Somalia needs help, and the children are the most needy.

The children lost parents in the war, they need caregivers, they need help from the government, they need help from any good samaritan, they are sighing on a way to see help coming. Please help them...give them a voice.
Photo: Abukar Albadri