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Leaving a fighter’s life behind

Helping children formerly associated with armed groups in the Greater Kasai region resume their lives.

Jordan’s learning centres help children caught in conflict get back to school

One of my strongest memories from this seemingly endless war is of a young Syrian refugee girl I met in Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq – 12 years old and three years out of school – who had forgotten how to read. What kind of hope could there be for a society that, in this day and age, could let children lose their education?

UNICEF Jordan’s Makani centres reach the most vulnerable children

“Our village was so tiny, so far away and so unimportant that we thought the war would never reach us.” Hassan gave a sad shrug. “We were wrong.”