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Canada, War. "War Child | Helping War-Affected Children Reclaim Their Childhood.". War Child Canada, 2020, http://warchild.ca/ . Accessed 11 June 2020.

Sage, Amanda. Dr. Samantha Nutt, Humanitarian-Author-Mother-Medical Doctor-War Child Canada Founder. 10 June 2014, https://kickasscanadians.ca/dr-samantha-nutt/

"Samantha Nutt – Founder Of War Child USA And Canada, Assistant Professor At The University Of Toronto, Public Speaker, Activist And Bestselling Author.". Samanthanutt.Com, 2020, http://samanthanutt.com.  Accessed 11 June 2020.

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In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo: War Child Canada

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In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo: War Child Canada

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In Gewane, Afar, Ethiopia. Photo: War Child Canada

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In Gewane, Afar, Ethiopia. Photo: War Child Canada

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Currently help over 400,000 per year by providing opportunity and education to those in need.

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What has the individual or organisation achieved?

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What has the individual or organisation achieved?

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Decision to fold the Canadian International Development Agency under our country’s trade agenda

Believes should achieve 0.7% of our Gross National Product as a contribution to foreign aid but have had cutbacks from government

Pressuring government to sign the Arms Trade Treaty

Appointed to the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour, for her contributions to improving lives of young people in the world’s worst conflict zones

Puts children in Accelerated Learning Programming (ALP), a condensed curriculum and allows re-entering into school easy

Vocational skills training, conducting market assessments, and small business development allows women to support their children and become financially independent

Addresses chronic food insecurity by promoting early recovery, sustainable livelihoods and market initiatives

Addresses lack of legal protection for women and children survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

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She lived for 5 years in South Africa

“I was really young, so I don’t want to overstate it; we came back (to Toronto) when I turned six, so it was very, very early,” says Sam. “But I do remember bits and pieces of my childhood years in Africa. I can remember I had a little friend by the name of Nora, who was black, and we were together at a park, I was about five, and I can remember the police coming up to us and saying it was a ‘whites only’ park and that we weren’t allowed to play together, and the two of us stood there and held hands, crying. It was the first time that I’d been exposed to cruelty and discrimination and, even then, I had a strong sense of how unjust the world can be. A decade later, I would march against apartheid.”

“I think that international exposure certainly left me feeling as if there was a broader world and I wanted to engage with it,” she says.

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In Gewane, Afar, Ethiopia. Photo: War Child Canada

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In Gewane, Afar, Ethiopia. Photo: War Child Canada

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In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo: War Child Canada

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In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo: War Child Canada

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("Samantha Nutt – Founder Of War Child USA And Canada, Assistant Professor At The University Of Toronto, Public Speaker, Activist And Bestselling Author.")

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("Samantha Nutt – Founder Of War Child USA And Canada, Assistant Professor At The University Of Toronto, Public Speaker, Activist And Bestselling Author.")

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Educating:

Two TV documentaries

A book

Donating:

Hosted a benefit concert in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 2000 with over 80,000 people and raising more than $300,000

Communicate:

Tens of thousands of people educated on women and children’s rights

Done interviews for the CBC TV NEWS and Now This News

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What is the political or social change the person/organisation is trying to do?

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What is the political or social change the person/organisation is trying to do?

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Women and children are often targeted to kill and used to terrorise communities.

Abductions are common and children are usually the targets.

War Child is a “charity that empowers local people and organisations to be the architects of their own recovery from the devastation of war”, basically they help families in need from other war torn countries although its started as a way to mostly help children

They work with children and their families in many of the world’s major crises (Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Darfur, Sudan)