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When he talks about Liberia's lost and marginalized young men, Anthony Kamara uses the analogy of a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis. Kamara, 32, a former street drug user, is a facilitator for the Network for Empowerment and Programme Initiatives. Nepi, founded in 2004 by former child soldier Johnson Borh, 51, offers a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy and cash transfers to young people who are at the highest risk for violent behavior. Sustainable Transformation of Youth in Liberia has helped tens of thousands of young men in Liberia, and its model has also proven successful in Chicago, US. Bohr is in talks to offer the project in Sierra Leone and Nigeria and is collaborating with two Liberian ministries to scale the program across the country. In the coming year, another 1,000 fresh Styl graduates will emerge from the program.
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