What Happens to Former Child Soldiers?

After the war, these children will have difficulty communicating with their colleagues. They are marked abandoned and often spend most of their time alone and invisibly. One of the main priorities people will try to help children reintegrate into society is to allow them to start participating in other things, earn money and interact with others It is finding a job. Many soldiers suffered from this, as many soldiers became indifferent and lost their occupational ethics and motivation needed in the workplace.

The past and present reintegration efforts had many problems. Former child soldiers are often affected by stereotypes that may work together with other factors such as poverty to give former child soldiers a reason to return to the battlefield. Individuals unrelated to any military pretend to be former combatants with the aim of profiting from the support program and to alleviate the possibility of problems for those who are not eligible for organizational assistance the actual military skills Screening and testing. People fighting as children often do not remember much before they become soldiers, hindering efforts to reunite their families. Especially recruits of young women are often treated as wives, there are also characteristics of gender, psychological influence.

Once reintegrated into society it is difficult for the original child soldiers to find a job with a little skill and education. UNICEF and the International Social Security Association provide vocational training programs for former Somali children. The program provides plumbing work, carpentry work, electrical work, tailor training. In 2016, more than 900 former Somali child soldiers received these services. Musa Gbow, AMISOM's child protection advisor and workshop coordinator, says: