Personal Narrative: The Next Bob Marley

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Everyone has one hope and dream in life--- to find your passion and live it with happiness. People will spend their whole lives, invest years of hard work, late nights, sweat, and tears; and sometimes never find it. Those that do are the lucky ones. But for other’s that journey is far grimier, cruder, and violent than others.
He’s been referred to as the “next Bob Marley” and the new face in the United Kingdom music industry. Selling over 1 million copies of his first album Hello, booking major events, and taking reggae music by storm, Zane Omari has dominated the UK over the last 5 years. With his charming way of speech a humble attitude, you’d never guess that not that long ago Zane was fighting for his life, being forced into doing terrible
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There he found his freedom. Gratefully on 12 March 2012, the leaders in Sudan signed into effect an action plan to progress toward the end child soldiering. “Signed by the Ministry of Defense, the United Nations Peacekeeping in South Sudan (UNMISS), UNICEF, and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, also ensures that all militias currently being incorporated into the SPLA are child free” according to Children in Armed Conflict. With the goal to rehabilitate the children who had been forced into war for as many as four years; the program incorporates the children into getting their education, finding stability, and never returning to the conflict. “Some children have not gone immediately to their homes, some have gone to “UNICEF-supported interim care centre” while their families are being looked for so that they can be reunited. They are fed, clothed, and well taken care in these camps while they await their reunions,” reports Arabia 2000. UNICEF estimates the costs of releasing and reintegrating one child alone, to be around $2,330. The effects of the programs efforts are felt powerfully in the lives of the children.
“Because of UNICEF I am close to a normal person again. It was a difficult to repair myself after the damage that had been done. When I arrived in the UK, I involved myself in political peace core groups. I want

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