Unicef Goodwill Ambassador Ishmael Beah travelled to Tijuana and Mexico City last week to meet with internally displaced children and families fleeing armed violence.
During his visit to Tijuana in northern Mexico, Beah – a bestselling author and human rights activist who was forcibly recruited into an armed group during the brutal civil war in his home country of Sierra Leone at the age of 13 – spoke to Mexican children, teenagers and their parents about experiences they had endured. The children and their families talked of the violence and danger they faced at home from organized crime, the decision to flee their communities towards the north, and the challenges they have faced since, both on their perilous journeys and as they now work to establish more hopeful futures.
Based on data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (Idmc), 113,000 children were living in internal displacement in Mexico at the end of 2022 due to of violence and conflict.
During his visit to Tijuana in northern Mexico, Beah – a bestselling author and human rights activist who was forcibly recruited into an armed group during the brutal civil war in his home country of Sierra Leone at the age of 13 – spoke to Mexican children, teenagers and their parents about experiences they had endured. The children and their families talked of the violence and danger they faced at home from organized crime, the decision to flee their communities towards the north, and the challenges they have faced since, both on their perilous journeys and as they now work to establish more hopeful futures.
Based on data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (Idmc), 113,000 children were living in internal displacement in Mexico at the end of 2022 due to of violence and conflict.
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