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In 2008, a young traveler named Sean traveled through eastern Congo to learn about a war he knew nothing about.
He spent the day with the boys, trading stories, laughter and tears. One boy told him of children too small to carry guns being sent to the front lines, armed with only a whistle.
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After he and his partner worked with the UN to have the boys released, he went home that night and wrote the Falling Whistles journal. A single story of a single day. It was originally sent to about 80 friends and family, who forwarded it around the world. Thousands of strangers wrote back asking: what can we do?
Just a few days later he found himself in a military encampment, where he met five boys being held prisoner by the national army. The boys had been child soldiers, taken from their homes and forced to fight for two different rebel groups, until one night they escaped and ran to the national army for refuge. Now in the hands of their own military, they were being treated as enemies of the state.
When he arrived back on U.S. soil, he wanted to tell everyone about what he had seen: the deadliest war of our time still unfolding - unnoticed and unchallenged. But war isn’t so easily brought up in casual conversation. Then a friend Marcus gave him a unique gift: a whistle on a chain. Worn around his neck, it sparked interest everywhere he went. That’s when they realized:Their weapon could be our voice.
have small beginnings. Peace in Congo, or peace anywhere for that matter, won't come in a single dramatic leap. It will be the accumulation of millions of steps, day after day, away from oppression and toward liberty. Run with us. - See more at: http:// www.fallingwhistles.com/our-storyindex#our-story-5