By Gibao Brima
Since children are the heart of everything we do, the Child Protection and Advocacy Network (CPAN/SL) in collaboration with the Federation of Community Health Workers (FCHW-SL) will soon host a community dialogue meeting on the protection of children especially girls in homes and vulnerable communities in a bid to help complement government effort in women’s empowerment.
In a snap interview with Child Protection Advocacy Network National Coordinator Awalu F.Kamara said Child Protection Advocacy Network was founded by a six social or community volunteers inspired by the discrimination and appalling living standards of children in communities across Sierra Leone more specifically those living in slums and poverty stricken communities across Sierra Leone.
Dilating further, Mr. Kamara said huge numbers of poor children exist as the less privilege and marginalized groups of Sierra Leoneans are living in remote, neglected and poverty ridden communities across the country and therefore, the network was established on the basis to address the imperative needs to swiftly respond to education, economic welfare and social needs of the children whose plights continue unabated and remain to suffer in communities with limited attention being paid to their right and welfare at individual community has hold levels.
It was at this backdrop that child protection and advocacy network was formed.
Mr. Kamara said they cannot continue to work along in that direction as that is main reason the Federation Of Community Health Workers Sierra Leone (FCHW-SL) under the Chief Executive Officer Mrs. Agnes Derick Lebby, based in the United Kingdom are collaborating with CPAN-SL with the vision to see a guaranteed and integrated society were all Sierra Leonean children live without fear or intimidation of any kind within the legal frame work of Sierra Leone.