BY: Diego Valenzuela & Edgar Casas P.3 Mrs. Teitelbaum Child Soldiers BY: Diego Valenzuela & Edgar Casas P.3 Mrs. Teitelbaum

What is a Child Soldier? A Child Soldier is anyone under the age of eighteen who is part of any kind of Military or Militia.

Does it still exist? Yes, it does still exist people use children as suicide bombers, soldiers, spies, & other things needed in the battlefield. It still exists in other countries because they need more soldiers on the battlefield and children are easier to recruit.

Where do Child Soldiers come from? Child Soldiers can come from any countries but there are many places in Africa that use Child soldiers.

Victims of child soldiers Army groups choose the poor children and those who have limited access to education. Maybe sometimes even children who have lost their parents get recruited too.

Countries that use child soldiers . Countries that use child soldiers In South Sudan they have recruited more than 3,000 child soldiers. Somali from 1991-2004, about 200,000 children served as soldiers. In Burma, about 70,000 children serve in the Burma National Army.

Kids treated as child soldiers Many child soldiers serve as porters or cooks, guards, messengers, & spies Child soldiers sent to combat and forced to be in front lines

Sources to stop child soldiers culturesofresistence.org child-soldiers.org unicef.org voanews.com

UNICEF.org Unicef tells stories about children that have survived the war and ways that you can help them out.

Video . https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ8R7ls2_nk

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