Changes for Congo's Children "Our Rights, Their Rights, Human Rights"

Changes for Congo's Children "Our Rights, Their Rights, Human Rights"

Submitted by cidangel on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 21:33.
Last updated on Sun, 10/05/2008 - 15:04.

Vital Stats

Start Date: 10/01/2007

Money Raised: More than $1000

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A group of students at Health Careers Academy is working very hard to promote awareness of the human rights violations of children in the

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa. Children in the DRC are being forced into the army, raped, killed, or have their families killed. As human rights leaders, students at HCa are joining forces with Christian Mukosa, a Human Rights Leader from the DRC. Together they are helping the child soldiers in the DRC to be reintegrated into their communities. These child soldiers need to change their lives; they need a place to live, a place that they can call home. They need an opportunity to live without being afraid for their lives. As one of our students said, "I never imagined there was so much suffering in the world. Here in the

United States, we take everything for granted." Yes, we talked about changes; changes that affect how we look at the world. We organized our Human Rights Project and we called it Changes for

Congo's Children - "Our Rights, Their Rights, Human Rights" because we believe that every human being deserves the right to live. We believe that forcing children into the army is inhumane and we believe that what happens on the other side of the world should matter to us.

Our goal for this year is to raise $5000 to help with the reintegration of child soldiers back into their communities.

Project Updates

10/5/08

Update: Our project was a success! We raised $6,800 dollars to send to the Congo. We had a great time meeting people from Africa and Congressman Capuano. It was great to work with the team.

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cidangel says:

We had a very successful Human Rights Progran. We raised awareness of the human rights violations of child soldiers in DRC.
We signed petitions letters and send them to Congressman Capuano in Washington, D.C.

Congressman Capuano visited our school on May 5th to talk about human rights violations of child soldiers.

We fundraised more than $6000 to help child soldiers in DRC.

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