See It: The Community being helped

            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.