And they needed medicines, the kind that are essential for children. Webb felt then and now that her efforts were making a difference. They still are, but my, how the world has changed. It is saving children from civil war, a conflict in which the very kids they are saving are involved as participants. The gun-toting combatants range in age from 8 to 18.
Timing is a concern too.
The dry season has started in the southern Sudan, prime time for new eruptions of war. And in the southern Sudan, that war means children as young as 8 are dying at the hands of other children the same age. She said it will take four to nine months to get the children resettled and reunited with their families. Now our goal is to give them an education and some time to recover. The second group will require much more extensive counseling before they head back to their families, schools and childhoods.