JENPRO: BUILDING TOMORROW'S WORLD TODAY! |  |
Vermont Law Melodies For Jeneba: Vermont Law School, South Royalton, and the surrounding communities came together on October 29th for a night of live classical music to fundraise for the Jeneba Project. Law Students Rachel Stevens, Ali Naraghi, Katie Johnson and Billy Peard organized the event. Performers also included Law Students (Ida Rose Nininger, Trinka Brennan, Theo Blair Fetter, Nathan Hunter) and nonstudents such as Alicia Wells, a French Horn player from Boston, MA. International food was also provided for the event, and many students and their parents attended to raise funds for the construction of a high school in Sierra Leone. The Jeneba Project is grateful to all who participated in the success of the event. |
 Picture: Sean Penn, Kennedy Odede, Bill Clinton | KAIFALA AT CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE UNIVERSITY The Jeneba Project was represented at the 2011 YMCA Model United Nations (YMUN) in Hershey, PA. The conference was a gathering of several students from schools in the North East. A year ago Joseph was a guest speaker at the conference. The students were so inspiring that he returned this year as a resource person. The theme of this year’s conference was education, which suits the Jeneba Project mission very well. Joseph made several presentations at the committee and regional caucus meetings, but he says the presentation that was most inspirational for him was the hour he spent with the young envoys. The young envoys are eighth graders who attend the conference as young envoys in order to prepare them for future attendance as proper delegates. "The brightness of the kids gave me a renewed hope in education as a fundamental tool for the future anywhere." Joseph reflected. The Jeneba Project provides educational opportunities to children in West Africa. |
SYMPOSIUM:CHILD SOLDIERS BY IMPUNITY WATCH! The Impunity Watch at Syracuse University College of Law recently held a symposium on the use of children in armed conflicts. There are between 250,000 and 300,000 child soldiers globally. Sierra Leone and Liberia were notable for the predominate use of children throughout the civil wars in both countries. Child Soldiers are engaged in active combat in at least 30 countries, and 43% of all armed organizations around the world use child Soldiers. The title of the symposium was: Humans As Commodities: Child Soldiers. Among those on the plenary panel were Honourable Romeo Dallaire, former head of the UN Peace Keeping Mission in Rwanda, who was also the keynote speaker; Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier; and David Crane, former war crimes prosecutor for the Special Court of Sierra Leone. Joseph Kaifala was also on a panel dealing with Moving on: Reclaiming Nations and Rehabilitating Child Soldiers. |  Picture: Romeo Dallaire, Ishmael Beah, David Crane. |
