Child Soldiers To Swap Guns For PCs
from the seems-like-a-worthwhile-trade dept
William Knowles writes "Child soldiers in Sierra Leone are to be offered the chance to hand in their guns for computers. A Sierra Leonean entrepreneur, Francis Steven George, is planning to set up a vocational training centre to teach computer and programming skills to the former rebels. "There are thousands of young people who were taken away from school during the war years and now that the fighting is finished, the question of what to do with them has to be addressed," said Mr George."
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horse before the cart...
their guns for a reliable power grid first...
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