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The stories and images in this book are both challenging and tragic. They tell how eight landmines in my own country, Mozambique, prevented more that 20,000 people from returning to their villages in the Mahniça valley for seven years. They tell of the exploitation of girls as soldiers and sexual slaves... The book charts the rise of HIV/AIDS as the single most powerful new factor compounding the dangers for children in armed conflict.

The book also showcases programmes that have been put in place since 1996 that have made a real difference in the lives of children caught in desperate circumstances... It shows the powerful role that women play in building peace and reconstructing their families and communities... and it argues for education to be at the centre of what must become a renaissance — a transformation of schools into safe havens for communal care, learning and support.

But we still have very far to go before we can say that our promises to children are fulfilled.

Softcover, 231 pages
Author: Graça Machel

ISBN-10: 1850654859
ISBN-13: 9781850654858