African Children Fighting in War

You are sitting in a classroom, in the heart of an African village surrounded by your affectionate teacher, and your friends that you have known for years. You are glancing out the window into the beautiful rain forests of Africa, with the warming sun shining through the window.

The tranquility is minced as you hear desperate screams coming from throughout the village that you once knew as your dwelling. You instinctively look up to try to figure out what all the chaos is about, when you are knocked unconscious, for absolutely no reason. When you awaken, and the dust settles down, you see your friends on then ground critically injured, and some even killed. You are dragged away from the village, knowing that you may by no means see your friends or family again.

This is what is happening to hundreds of Africans every single day, and these cruel people are making innocent children fight to survive, and become young killing machines. These young Africans are loosing parts, and some even all of their educations in a place where most students can't even conclude middle school.

It's not fair that even when children are disbanded from war, or saved by the U.N (United Nations), they are left homeless, and some never even find their beloved parents. Children are dying at a very young age, without even getting to experience life to its fullest, and they end up with no childhood. Sending children, some of them under the age of seven to war is cruel, and erroneous.

Africans are loosing their educations, some of them are fortunate, and only loose a measurement of it, but others are loosing all of their instruction. In Africa, less than 11% of children finish school, and move onto college to outline their lives, and figure out what they want to do in the midst of their existence (The U.N Works).

Furthermore, Africa needs to build it's self up and become more organized, but if children don't get their full education Africa's future will not be spontaneous, nor high-quality. Finally, if children want to grow up, they are going to need to attend some sort of school, or they will by no means be able to amount to anything in their futures. Rather the African governments think so or not, children do need some sort of education, and at least a diminutive childhood.

It's not right to the children that once they are let free from the war that they served most of their lives in, and they end up going to camps until their parents are found, and some never find them. Even when children are detached from the brutal wars, they will by no means escape the emotional scars that they gained there. Following this subject further, when children leave these fights, they are sent to camps until their parents are found (Children's Christians Funds).

Some are wedged in those camps for the rest of the diminutive childhood that they already face. Furthermore, when children leave the wars in Africa they are so addicted to drugs that they die, or become seriously sick shortly after removal (HRW). Drugs are given to these innocent children in battle to control them, and give them the will-power to fight. It's not reasonable that even after all these small children have been through, when they leave the war they are left with emotional scars of the precedent, and drug addiction.

Without even getting to enjoy life and live life to its absolute fullest, these children are ending up with no childhood, and some are even paying the ultimate penalty of fatality. 27,000 children ten and under die each day and 20 % (1350) of this number is because of children fighting in wars across the humanity (Children's Christians Funds). There are currently 300,000, innocent children suffering in war across the world and the 120,000 of them are fighting in Africa (HRW).

The children that are granted a miracle, and survive are growing up too fast, and becoming killers at ages under ten, which can be harmful to the children in their near futures. Without being able to have the benefit of life, children are dying for no imperative reason.

How would it feel to you, if you were harmfully taken out of your home before you even knew right from wrong? These children of Africa are loosing their educations because they have to fight in Africa in war, which is not fair to the children loosing the education, or to Africa, these children are Africa's future, and if they aren't educated then Africa's economy will fall. Small children, that in the United States you would not even see in school yet, are dying because of fighting in wars that spread across Africa. Sending children, some of them under the age of seven to war is malicious, and erroneous, and it should not be tolerated no matter what the origin.