Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
and Radiance of
Tomorrow:
Sierra Leone
Background
Sengbe Pieh
(Joseph Cinque)
Ishmael Beah
At 15, UNICEF removed Beah from fighting
and helped him begin rehabilitating.
In 1998 he moved to the U.S. and finished
high school. He graduated from Oberlin
College in 2004.
He is a member of the Human Rights
Watch Childrens Rights Division Advisory
Committee and speaks on behalf of
children affected by war.
He began the Ishmael Beah Foundation to
help former child soldiers.
Kimberley Process
Certification Scheme
Created in 2002 to control the
flow blood diamonds.
A Kimberley Certification must
be presented by a gems owner
before it can leave the country.
This forces the government to
keep track of the diamonds they
are importing and exporting and
their value.