Pambazuka News

Sierra Leone: Child war victim shows courage to go on

2008-11-12, Issue 406

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/rights/51895


Mariatu Kamara is 22, pays close attention to fashion, makeup and hairstyles, and, like many young women in Canada, is starting college. But, unlike others at her downtown campus, Kamara is doing it all without hands. Hers were hacked off in a machete attack in her native Sierra Leone a decade ago.