Child Protection

“It is not impossible, there is Life through your eyes”

“You can be what I am. You can be more than what I am if you only listen to what we tell you,” Dr Memunatu Pratt, Sierra Leone Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs talking to girls who had gone to the National Museum to showcase photographs of how they see the world, 12^th December 2019. 

Pujehun is one of the Districts in the Southern Part of Sierra Leone, where women and girls are extremely vulnerable. The First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Madam Fatima Bio took " Hands off our Girls " campaign to the district and Save the Children was invited as one of the sponsors of the campaign.

On the 13th to 15th  August 2019, Save the Children trained girls from two rural communities in Waterloo on photography and protection. This three-day Photo Voice training showed them how to spot and report protection issues using the camera to highlight and bring them to public attention.