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Teaching teenage prisoners how to use swords

Young offenders in a Senegalese prison are being taught how to use swords to learn respect. The teenagers are being given fencing lessons in Thies Prison. The Charity "Pour le sourire d'un enfant" started the initiative five years ago. It says it is helping to reduce re-offending rates and the prisoners have become calmer.

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