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Kimmie Weeks
Kimmie Weeks (born December 6, 1981) is a Liberian human rights activist.〔("Biography of Kimmie Weeks" ), ''African Success''. Retrieved June 24, 2009.〕
==Early years==
Born in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1981, Kimmie Weeks was nine years old when he experienced the First Liberian Civil War at first hand.〔 He and his mother, Estina Ntow, were forced to leave their home and marched with many other displaced Liberians to a refugee camp set up in university buildings. A classroom filled to capacity with 30 people became his home.〔 While in the camp, Kimmie became deathly ill - dehydrated due to cholera, he also contracted chickenpox and yellow jaundice.〔Kathryn Hawkins, ("A New Hope for Africa: Young Liberian Activist, Kimmie Weeks" ), ''Gimundo'', February 26, 2008. Retrieved June 24, 2009.〕 He saw no doctor, no nurse and was administered no medicine except for a few herbs.〔Sonia Azad, ("West African child rights activist – Kimmie Weeks" ), ''Peace News'', March 2008, Issue 2495.〕 When other refugees sharing the classroom with them could no longer find a pulse in Kimmie, it was decided, over his mother’s objections, that he had died. He was thrown still alive onto one of many piles of dead bodies in the refugee camp.〔"The Survivor", (), Retrieved June 24, 2009.〕 Kimmie’s mother refused to accept that he was dead. She searched until she found his body and resuscitated him, beating on his chest and shaking him until he regained consciousness. That same night, Kimmie vowed to dedicate the rest of his childhood and adult life to making the world a better place for children.〔
His early projects were small community-based initiatives, which he and groups of children his age carried out to help their own community. At the age of 14, he heard about the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for the first time and began to organize community initiatives to promote the CRC and the concept that "children should be seen AND heard."
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