Last February 12, International Child Soldier Day, the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) published a report "Understanding the Phenomenon of Child Soldiers". The study, carried out during December 2006, is based on interviews with 128 child soldiers living in the JRS Uvira Centre, in the Province of South Kivu, Congo D.R. The aim of this publication is to draw attention on the difficulties faced by these children and efforts of the JRS to reverse this situation.
