that you guys do around the world. So War Child is an international non-governmental organization and charity. And we work with children and their families on the front lines of most of the world's most significant and intense conflicts.
So if your rights are being violated, if you're being raped and abused, you have no recourse. And so that's what War Child focuses on. And in order to do that, you have to mobilize those local communities.
So educating girls doesn't mean that that comes at the expense of educating boys. And we found that and War Child 's found that with our work all around the world. If you're not investing in what we call community-based sensitization-- going into those communities, talking about the value of girls' education, demonstrating the importance
You offer some pretty withering criticism in your book of people who just come in with an outside agenda into a local area and say, this is how it should be. How do you guys operate differently at War Child ? How do you make sure you're not doing that?
that many of those armed groups will offer them. I mean, War Child knows, even for the work that we have done all around the world, that when we have done skills training with young people, when we have worked with teachers and other educators to make sure that they had access to education, could go back to school at an appropriate grade
What we really need is sectoral reform. And you're also in the midst of setting up War Child US.
I love it very much. So we have Dr. Samantha Nutt from War Child here with us today. Adam Green, as you all know, who's from the agency team who's the creative lead, he will be hosting.
Because you can go to any war zone around the world and know that that is not the case. So until we can do that, do you feel like you guys at War Child are kind of bailing the Titanic with a bucket as you try to educate people out of this but almost unlimited free weapons are coming in the other side?
What we really need is sectoral reform. And you know, and I have a limitless passion for the work that War Child does around the world.
What we really need is sectoral reform. But for me, ultimately what I find most hopeful is that every day in War Child in our office, we are surrounded by people who are
Thanks for coming in to Google. So for those who aren't familiar with your work, if you could tell us a little bit about what is War Child and the work that you guys do around the world.
What we really need is sectoral reform. You're a physician, an author, an assistant professor at the U of T, a mother, a board member, and the founder and executive director of War Child Canada.