Life Skills Education: - Children at war, creating hope for the future

Children at war, creating hope for the future
Amnesty International USA - This report is the outcome of research conducted by Amnesty International during 2005 and 2006, including through visits to regions of eastern DRC and the capital, Kinshasa. In the course of research, Amnesty International delegates met with scores

March for peace in northern Uganda
ActionAid - The bus crew met 13-year-old Apio Agnes, who is in her second year at the Empowering Life Skills Education (Else) centre in Bweyale, Masindi, which is supported by ActionAid. She is one of the hundreds of children who witnessed atrocities committed

In wartime, fighting fears
Newsday - They meet daily for an elective, four-year course that aims to instill leadership and self-confidence through a mix of life- skills education and military discipline. To celebrate the 231st birthday of the Marines, they started this day's class with

First Tee is much more than golf
GolfWeek - Dedric Holmes, The First Tee's senior director of life skills education, estimates 90 percent of the attendees have never visited a college campus. How far can one's horizons broaden in one week? The Life Skills Academy began in 2000 at Kansas