Empowerment of Vulnerable Mothers in the Context of Reintegration
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This article reviews the literature on empowerment and situates empowerment within the context of a multi-year participatory action research study with young women and girls who were formerly associated with fighting forces and armed groups in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and northern Uganda and had children of their own during the conflict and with young mothers considered by their community to be especially vulnerable. The authors put forward suggestions about how empowerment of this particularly vulnerable population can happen. Miranda Worthen et al. 150
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