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A middle-class white female in rural America and war-affected children in Africa find common earth in their journeys from brokenness to redemption. Writer and psychologist Bethany Haley shares how her own mental treatment led her into treacherous war zones, where she provides treatment to previous child troops and girls used as sex slaves. Faced with her own battle with pity and a rocky journey toward treatment, Bethany founded Exile International, a nonprofit that implements art/expressive therapy and long-term, rehabilitative treatment to restore and enable war-affected children - including those rescued from Joseph Kony's LRA (Lord's Level of resistance Army). One of those rescued teenagers, Solomon, was abducted at age 10 after being forced to view LRA troops maim and murder his daddy and grandfather. His more youthful siblings were left out, and his mother was instructed to "raise them well...for just one day we'll go back to take them too." Solomon is one of hundreds of thousands of boys and girls who have experienced their innocence taken and are pressured to do the unthinkable on a regular basis. But their horrific activities are just the beginning. The real history is what happens after. Once these children figure out how to face their pasts, they receive hope for another and a vision for changing the cloth of their countries by becoming leaders for peacefulness and advocates of the power of forgiveness.
