Children on the Frontline 2. Sierra LeoneThe decade-long civil war of the nineteen nineties in Sierra Leone created an estimated 2.1 million refugees. At least half were children, most of whom suffered appallingly high levels of atrocity and cruelty resulting in a generation with mental health trauma. |
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This film will be led by two teenagers, Paul who is wheelchair bound through injuries he sustained in the war and Harriet, a sassy young radio presenter of the childrens' radio station Myamba in Freetown to show how their generation, some of whom were child soldiers, is coping with the aftermath by expressing themselves through music and rapping, running youth radio stations and community health projects, in particular, post traumatic stress.
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