I've thought about doing this for some time.
I haven't decided if this is a good idea or not - yet.
So, with trepid anticipation, welcome to my blog.
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About Me
- Penelope Nelson
- I have worked as a researcher at the Ford Institute for Human Security for the past two years. I started out researching the Liberian civil war (1999-2003) and Liberian child soldiers. I ended up traveling to a Liberian refugee camp located just outside of Accra, Ghana to work with a group of former child soldiers in the summer of 2007. Working with this group of people was amazing. I learned so much that I hadn't been able to learn simply by researching or sitting at my desk reading. Their experiences are real. Their wounds and trauma is real. Programs to help them are almost nonexistent. Yet, this relatively small group of child soldiers is key to the fate and future of Liberia. This is what I do. Over the course of the last year, I have networked with different groups and individuals in order to help address the needs of former child soldiers as they seek to rejoin society. In December of 2007, I founded a non-profit organization called the Child Soldier Reintegration Fund (CSRF). My non-profit works together with another non-profit called Mediators Beyond Borders (MBB) to help child soldiers bridge the gap between their post-war existence and peaceful reintegration.
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