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)

“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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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.