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Action!

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My name is Stephen Swanky, I'm from Sierra Leone.

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I've never participated in a filming program like this one.

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And this one is called One Minute Video, I participated in it.

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And everybody is supposed to design a One Minute Video

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based on the topic we have identified during the workshop.

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The One Minute Junior is a project where we engage young people in video making

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and it's also storytelling.

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We really encourage them to tell their own stories in a short format, in a one minute format.

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There's a definite theme, it's the children's rights theme,

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it's the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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So each child has been asked to make a video based on one of the conventions.

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But the good thing is that they're very creative in the way that they're expressing those rights,

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so it's not just a very serious view on the rights of children,

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but instead they've been encouraged to be very creative and imaginative with expressing those rights.

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I chose child soldiers, and I decided to choose that because in my country we had about 10 years of the K-War

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and during the war many children were recruited as child soldiers.

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We were forcefully recruited, taken from their parents, and we were forced to join the army.

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During the war many of them lost their school, they lost their future.

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Many of them also died, lost their parents.

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So when I came here, I thought that among the topics that we identified,

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that could be one of the appropriate ones.

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When the children are making the films themselves,

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they know the rights that concern them, and they know their goals.

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Many organisations are trying to educate people not to involve children in war.

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So I do believe, from my video I selected, and the one-minute video programme,

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if people look at it, I think that can help to also cement the change that we wanted to have.

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There are many children who do not know their rights yet,

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and I think if they watch our films, some of them will begin to know something about the rights of children.

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Every child has a story to tell that deserves to be listened to.