{"id":2343,"date":"2018-11-09T01:08:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2018-11-09T01:08:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:08:42","slug":"learn-to-live-joss-stone-says-our-campaign-is-life-changing-for-children-in-war-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2018\/11\/09\/learn-to-live-joss-stone-says-our-campaign-is-life-changing-for-children-in-war-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn to Live: Joss Stone says our campaign is \u2018life-changing\u2019 for children in war zones"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/learn-to-live\/learn-to-life-war-child-joss-stone-central-african-republic-education-community-a8600791.html<\/span><\/p>\n

Singer Joss Stone today said our Learn to Live campaign is \u201cimperative\u201d to help young people growing up in war zones after singing with a group in the Central African Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n

The African nation has seen ongoing coups and counter-coups since gaining independence from France in 1960. It has been gripped by civil war since 2012. Children have been forced into joining brutal militias. Brainwashed through beatings and drugs, they have terrorised entire communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Children who grew up in such communities can still bear the mental scars. They also face issues such as teachers expecting sex from pupils in return for good grades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn to Live: Joss Stone says The Independent’s campaign is ‘imperative’ for children in Central African Republic school<\/span><\/p>\n

Through The Independent’s campaign, young people who attend an after-school centre in Bangui run by British charity War Child have twinned with a school in London, with whom they are writing a song to sing together.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think twinning with schools in London is a good idea because it helps people from different lands to understand they are all the same, we are all human <\/span><\/p>\n

The artist, 31, who supports charity projects in every country she tours, said: \u201cThey were showing me a song they had written and it was actually really good. A lot of the young people said they wanted to be singers \u2013 one of them asked me how I got my break. Some of these children are orphans. It is good to do something that could help a person, or a few people. As a singer I can sing a song, that is four or five minutes of joy, but there is a lot more there. This work is life-changing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She added: \u201cI think twinning with schools in London is a good idea because it helps people from different lands to understand they are all the same, we are all human.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t connect with different people and cultures, we will not know how to empathise with them, and then you have this issue of \u2018them over there, they are not our problem\u2019. This twinning programme is a step in the right direction, letting people know that we are all in this together.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the formative years, they are very important, if the issues aren\u2019t dealt with, they can wreck your life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/learn-to-live\/learn-to-life-war-child-joss-stone-central-african-republic-education-community-a8600791.html Singer Joss Stone today said our Learn to Live campaign is \u201cimperative\u201d to help young people growing up in war zones after singing with a group in the Central African Republic. The African nation has seen ongoing coups and counter-coups since gaining independence from France in 1960. It has been gripped by civil war since 2012. Children have been… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,92,113,112],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-car","tag-central-african-republic","tag-cultural-exchange","tag-ngo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}