CarpoolMania & Transportation Alternatives
Keeping roadways clear and our minds at ease...
CarpoolMania is a forum for discussion on the logistics and benefits of carpooling and taking various modes of public transportation. These days there is a wide array of ways to get to and fro, but most of us (Americans anyway) stick to the convenience of our personal vehicle. This group is to educate individuals interested in stepping out of their car a ...learn more
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Peace Links is an NGO in Sierra Leone with and for the child soldiers, using music, dance and culture as means towards healing, rehabilitation and reintegration of child soldiers back to their community, as well as an effective tool for raising awareness for a culture of peace [in their society].
Peace Links has a vocational training centre, which assists in the capacity building of child soldiers. Peace Links also gives support to a limited number of ex-child combatants for their formal education, organizes Beach Peace Rallies to bring youths from various backgrounds together so that they can relax in a cordial atmosphere and deliberate issues affecting them. They have carried out a remarkable campaign “stop using child soldiers” to raise awareness in their communities on the living conditions of child soldiers and ex-child combatants. Peace Links out reach programs are often directed towards institutions, mostly secondary schools which host majority of the former child soldiers, the organization is working with. Its founder and former coordinator [Vandy Kanyako Jr.] is the 2001 Hague Appeal for Peace Prize Winner
Peace Links has a vocational training centre, which assists in the capacity building of child soldiers. Peace Links also gives support to a limited number of ex-child combatants for their formal education, organizes Beach Peace Rallies to bring youths from various backgrounds together so that they can relax in a cordial atmosphere and deliberate issues affecting them. They have carried out a remarkable campaign “stop using child soldiers” to raise awareness in their communities on the living conditions of child soldiers and ex-child combatants. Peace Links out reach programs are often directed towards institutions, mostly secondary schools which host majority of the former child soldiers, the organization is working with. Its founder and former coordinator [Vandy Kanyako Jr.] is the 2001 Hague Appeal for Peace Prize Winner