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AssignmentThe Zogos of LiberiaForgotten Child Soldiers

The Zogos are Liberia’s underclass: jobless and addicted to drugs so who can help them?

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Former child soldier Godoe Zizi

He's now a ‘car loader’ helping people to find taxis in the market but can't afford shoes

  • These men are all former child soldiers
  • These former combatants live in a derelict house and try to earn their living by fixing old tyres by the side of the road
  • Now 33, Miatta's life was torn apart by the war when she was a young teen
  • Former child soldier Godoe Zizi
  • Miatta a former child soldier got some training as a hairdresser after the war
  • A young woman tried to sell her baby in the market to buy money for drugs
  • A tense community meeting in Paynesville, outside the Liberian capital
  • Reuben Bobby Logan, who runs 'Operation Restore Hope', talks to angry residents
  • Social workers from the SEED project in Liberia, run by the Young Women's Christian Association
  • Alice (right) and Sando Masally (left) from the YWCA. Sando doesn't like the word 'Zogo,' preferring ‘disadvantaged youths’
  • The song 'Zogo' by Liberian-Ghanaian rapper Pillz is about the underclass blamed for many crimes in Liberia

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