
Former child soldier Morris Y. Matadi builds rehabilitation schools
The First and Second Liberian Civil Wars, which raged between 1989 and 2003, are renowned for the brutality children faced during these two wars. Many children were recruited as soldiers and forced to leave their parents at ages when they needed them the most. These children were ordered to kill many people from their own villages and were exposed to different kinds of drugs. Some of them had to serve as cooks, stewards, and other as sex slaves. When the wars were over, these