I ran across these videos about the girls with whom we worked in Liberia, West Africa, in 2004 when we served with Samaritan's Purse. They were called female ex-combatants, a sanitized way to say sex trafficked child soldiers who were somebody's little girls. If you are interested in their lives -- or our lives in Liberia in 2004, these videos date to that period and make me wish for our second home.
The Demobilization process of adult and trafficked child soldiers while we were there in 2004.
Below: The boy version of the interim care centers for female ex-combatants which we oversaw in 2004. We cared for all the demobilized girls in two UNICEF-funded interim care centers and a third home funded by Samaritan's Purse and run by THINK, a Liberian NGO led by our dear friend Rosana Schaack. Amanda and I served as country directors for Samaritan's Purse with 80 Liberian employees in Paynesville and Buchanan.
Below: The chaos of Liberia that was 2003 and 2004 when Amanda and I were there. My first trip there was in January 2003 when I traveled with Marvin Bozard of Campus Crusade for Christ from Monrovia on the coast through Gbanga in Bong County, where Charles Taylor's plantation was located and al-Qaeda's #2 and #3 had been hiding, to Ghanta (Gampa) in Nimba County near the borders with Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire.
Below: UNICEF visits a girls safe home operated by THINK led by friend Rosana Schaack.
Below: After the 2005 election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as President, possibly 2006. Below: The volatile situation in which we lived in 2004 in Liberia.
The Demobilization process of adult and trafficked child soldiers while we were there in 2004.
Below: The boy version of the interim care centers for female ex-combatants which we oversaw in 2004. We cared for all the demobilized girls in two UNICEF-funded interim care centers and a third home funded by Samaritan's Purse and run by THINK, a Liberian NGO led by our dear friend Rosana Schaack. Amanda and I served as country directors for Samaritan's Purse with 80 Liberian employees in Paynesville and Buchanan.
Below: The chaos of Liberia that was 2003 and 2004 when Amanda and I were there. My first trip there was in January 2003 when I traveled with Marvin Bozard of Campus Crusade for Christ from Monrovia on the coast through Gbanga in Bong County, where Charles Taylor's plantation was located and al-Qaeda's #2 and #3 had been hiding, to Ghanta (Gampa) in Nimba County near the borders with Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire.
Below: UNICEF visits a girls safe home operated by THINK led by friend Rosana Schaack.
Below: The infamous warlord General Butt Naked (Joshua Blahyi) is now a gospel preacher who talks about Christian forgiveness and possible punishment for war crimes. A former witchcraft priest who served President Samuel Doe, Blahyi came to faith in Jesus Christ under the ministry of our friend Pastor Sydney Thomas' church in Oldest Congo Town.
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