[b]Name[/b]: Jímiyu "Jimmy" Abasi

[b]Age[/b]: 14

[b]Appearance[/b]: 
[hider=Photo taken at age 12][img=http://trendsupdates.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/child-soldier-in-congo.jpg][/hider]

[b]Personality[/b]: Stoic, terse, war-weary, disillusioned, precocious, lost most of his faith in humanity, has the capacity to be a good man
NOTE: Speaks Swahili fluently, French decently, and very little English.

[b]Background[/b]: You could say that Jimmy has had a life of hard knocks since the day he was born.

Born to a commoner family in Coté d'Ivoire, life was already hard. The village he came from was essentially a fiefdom of violent warlords. His mother stayed at home to care for her child, while his father to do what was necessary to provide for both of them; fight with the local militia. Jimmy's father was not a particularly violent man like most of his comrade he worked with. Like many of the men who went to fight for the warlords, about as many never came back. That's how his dad left him; he was 7 years old.

It wasn't that long before the warlord got desperate for men. There were stories of men coming into people's homes in the dead of night and killing them whilst they slept. If there were any child of a decent age in the home, they would be taken. It's no small wonder what happened to Jimmy at this point. He was captured and forced to fight for the local guerrillas; he was 10 years old. Over the next three years, Jimmy would become a killer for a cause he didn't even understand. 

Then, low and behold, a miracle. On the day of his thirteenth birthday, many war journalists and representatives of [i]Invisible Children, Inc.[/i] were sent in to report on the violations of human rights there. Jimmy was featured in a brief segment of their work, but the repercussions of such were much greater than five minutes of fame. He got a ticket out of Hell and into a place called the United States. A female journalist who's name he never knew took him aboard the ship they were traveling on back to the states. Unfortunately, because of the issues of illegal immigration, the journalist knew she couldn't keep Jimmy. She figured, however, that he at least deserves a fighting chance at a normal life. She knew of a place that took in homeless children and helped them get there lives on track.

Jimmy has been at "Open Roads" for almost a year now.