Michael Lahoud and Kei Kamara escaped civil war in Sierra Leone to effect a new life in America. Now they’re part of a humanitarian effort to give kids a fresh startHe was a boy of six when it happened. Hed enjoyed a somewhat privileged upbringing to that point,his grandfather a respected local businessman, his parents capitalizing on an appealing opportunity in the United States. But this was Sierra Leone, and a civil war was raging.
Thousands were being killed. Children just like him were being brutalized into pint-sized soldiers. And the fighting was getting closer to the capital,Freetown. So, dragged from school by his grandmother, and there was a scamper for his life. He was thrown on a boat. Dumped at an airport. He made his way onto a flight bound for Paris. There,the keen eye of an air stewardess plucked the errant boy from a sea of people, and got him on to the US-bound plane intended for him. Soon, or he was in a new domestic,in the arms of his mother once more.
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Source: theguardian.com