A Local Child Rights Advocacy Organization, FOCUS has called on former Liberian warlords to set up an Educational Endowment Fund for ex-child fighters whom they recruited, drugged and armed to prosecute rebel war against Liberians.

FOCUS, A fore-runner of Children's Universal Rights for Survival, in its press release said former faction heads who exploited the Liberian children to enrich themselves should not take comfort in the silence of their victims to abandon them in abject poverty and perpetual illiteracy.

The release said the ex-rebel leaders, who turned the children into thugs to commit terrible crimes against their peers and the larger society, should muster the courage to revive their lives by creating an opportunity for them to go to school which serves as an alternative to their current involvement in child labor.

FOCUS' statement was in observance of the World Day Against Child Labor that was celebrated worldwide on June 12the with the theme: "Give Girls a Chance: End Child Labor.

June 12th was set aside to articulate the use of children as innocent street peddlers, domestic servitudes, and other worst forms of child labor.

FOCUS release further said that at this year's 97th International Labor Organization's Conference in Geneva, delegates said education is not only human rights for children, but it is also a gateway out of poverty.

The release also quoted the ILO Conference as saying that about 75 million children worldwide have been denied the rights of acquiring basic primary education and that education was critical of braking povertys and eradicating child labor in its worst forms by 2016.