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Jan-19-2010 | Project-AK47
65 Child Soldiers are released. 25 find refuge…

Above is our latest “delivery.” Since the birth of our endeavor with child soldiers five years ago, we have on average at least one delivery per year. The local army grows tired of toting the younger children they’ve conscripted or recruited for warfare, and drops them on our doorstep. Here’s the tragedy: we don’t have
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Dec-24-2009 | Project-AK47
Child Soldiers in Philippines [graphic]

Here’s a message our President wrote as he was flying from Philippines to Singapore: Our last meetings this morning included a children’s social worker, a filmmaker, a Filipino colonel (who is an expert in the conflict zones) and a lawyer. Our travel into the interior during the last three days was astonishing. We interviewed several
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Dec-12-2009 | Philippines
More from Philippines

Walking the streets of the slum, I notice a few things. One is the sheer number of “children at risk” that fill the streets. The other is how happy they are. They often live oblivious to the fact that they are “at risk,” and more so to what it is that they are at risk
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Dec-03-2009 | Philippines
Update from Philippines

Hey Project: AK-47 friends, this is Marcus. Right now, I’m traveling with Rob, an American who has lived in a number of Muslim conflict areas over the years. We will be taking a plane from Manila (Philippines) to Davao, Mindanao this Saturday to interview a few child soldiers as part of our effort to keep
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Sep-18-2009 | Myanmar
BURMA: No Stranger to Unrest

Burma is no stranger to social unrest and military conflict, but recent years, months and days have proven that the country is near a breaking point. We recently reported the good news about military clashes moving further away from our children’s homes, which allowed us to bring the children back, although on high alert. The
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Sep-09-2009 | Project-AK47
The latest news…

A big “Thank you” to those of you who have been following this situation and supporting our efforts to keep our children safe. We are working within a wartime scenario where the report on the ground can change daily and sometimes hourly, so while there is certainly good news, it is not the end of
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Sep-03-2009 | Project-AK47
The Evacuation Begins…

Yado quickly bundled her few belongings. Reports of thousands of gathering troops were more frequent now. Her first concern was the girls. War and rape seem to go hand in hand. As her thoughts went to little 7-year-old Eenap, whom she was sending off to relatives with a 2-month supply of rice, a heavy tear
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Sep-02-2009 | Project-AK47
Two updates

Just wanted to keep you posted… 1) Fighting in Burma continues as the Burma Army moves forward with its campaign to achieve greater control of the ethnic states. Three of the major ethnic groups representing half a dozen armies have not been successful in uniting and coordinating their efforts to stave off the Burma Army,
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Aug-30-2009 | Project-AK47
Urgent Update: Fighting Breaks Out

While we work in a very volatile region, wheresocial unrest and violence are not uncommon, tensions that we hoped would be resolved diplomatically have reached a boiling point and may quickly develop into a full-blown war between the Burma Army (the ruling military junta) and four ethnic groups: the Wa, Kokang, Kachin and Shan.The Karen
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Jun-09-2009 | Project-AK47
The Latest on Burma

Hallo aus Deutschland! Our founder Marcus and I are in Vöhl, Germany, not far from Frankfurt, meeting with our partner organization about bringing Project: AK-47 into Europe, among many other things. I’ll keep you posted on developments, but for now I wanted to be sure you were aware of a couple current events in Burma:
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Apr-23-2009 | Project-AK47
Our Recent Trip into a Restricted-Access Area

From www.projectAK47.com The trip in was tense. You could see it in the faces of our guides, especially while approaching military checkpoints. The national army was preparing to fight in the area where we were going, so we had to stay over in a border town full of casinos and brothels. At night, prostitutes would
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