MSWGCA Schools Social Workers and partners on Anti Human trafficking act

The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs (MSWGCA) with support from Decentralization Services Delivery Project (DSDP) support to Kenema District Council has ended a-two day training of social workers and other partners in the sixteen chiefdoms of Kenema district on the Anti- Human Trafficking Act 2005.

A facilitator who is also the Senior Social Services Officer Trafficking in Persons-Eastern Region, Vandy Bawoh said the training was meant to upgrade the social service workers to be able to distinguish trafficking cases from other protection matters. He said that at the end of the training, participants would be able to identify victims in their respective chiefdoms and to make appropriate referrals.
He called on participants to take the training with the seriousness it deserves and to put into practice whatever knowledge they acquire from the training.

In his statement, the Regional Coordinator, Office of National Security (ONS), Abdul Karim Will, said one of their functions is to coordinate intelligence among law enforcement agencies on crime related activities like trafficking in persons. He said trafficking in persons could affect everyone irrespective of your status.
He said the ONS through coordination was able to obstruct the activities of a certain corporate body that was recruiting University graduates for overseas jobs in Freetown. He called participants to be aware of such clandestine activities in their communities and to report same to the appropriate authorities.

publish - By Saffa B. MoribaWednesday May 25, 2016

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