Peace Child Sierra Leone is an NGO that has been working for 10 years to empower children and youth across the country. Their multi-faceted approach includes sensitisation campaigns, community development projects, mentor schemes, skills training and connecting young people both locally and internationally, to interact over a wide range of issues of direct relevance to them and the rehabilitation of their country.

Peace Child International empowers young people to take responsibility for peace, human rights and the environment through education, leadership development and direct participation in the events that shape our world community.

This it does through producing publications, musicals, conferences and encouraging its affiliate youth groups throughout the world. Peace Child gets its name from a tradition In Papua New Guinea, when warring tribes of head-hunters made peace, they each exchanged a child. The children would grow up with the others' tribe and if in the future, conflict threatened between the tribes again, those children would be sent to negotiate. Such a child was called a "Peace Child." This legend represents the important role we believe young people can play in changing the world.