Child Soldiers. What Should be Done

For oversight I feel that the Red Cross would be able to help with aiding people in starting farms by giving them seeds and teaching them how to grow the crops and why to stop growing drugs if they are currently growing them; Peace Corps could help negotiate with countries to begin to use words to talk with the enemy about the conflict and the problems it is causing and they would be able to help control illegal weapon trade; and finally gun manufacturers if they were to cooperate would be able to add weight to the light weapon arms making it unable for young children to hold them or in other words use them.. These would be the agencies in charge of putting the solutions to work.

In conclusion, this problem is one that must be solved. We cannot let children trying to eat dinner and get a education, or just trying to live their lives like a kid in any other country be taken out from their homes and killing their parents. We must act now before the children are put into more danger and more children are take and the war escalates more until all people are a threat in the country and all must be killed. Although if we follow the solutions suggested before, this problem could go away and this world would become a much better place. Without child soldiers we would be enabling them to a full childhood which in turn may lead to them getting a full education eradicating the need to continue trying to make children in 3rd world countries go to school. This in turn could help stop Poverty because with an education there would be more job opportunities for the children when they become adults. In a short version-ending child soldiers could end much more then just it in fact ending many of the U.N.’s millennium goals could in turn end others.

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