IN THE NEWS

The Child Soldiers of Staten Island

By Alissa Quart

Mother Jones, June 30, 2007

COMMENTARY: While Hollywood swoons over teen guerrillas, the real lost boys are hidden in plain sight. Read more...



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African Refuge on CNN:

The African Refuge video entitled Life After Torture.
























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Survivor of atrocities on a mission to aid others

From horrid civil war to life as an advocate on the North Shore

Monday, June 04, 2007

By Tevah Platt

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Hiding in the eave of a roof-- starving and forced to relieve himself where he lay-- Jacob Massaquoi had three days to remember the massacre he had just survived and to plot his escape across rebel lines in his native Liberia. Read more...