Child Protection

_{^{Enumerators collecting information about girls in GAC operational areas. Photo credit:  Adama Bangura - Save the Children}}

^{Photo by Jacob Wilson Save the Children April 2020}

In disasters and outbreaks, it’s women and children who suffer the most. Kadiatu* 17, a beneficiary of ‘Second Chance’ Project by Save the Children lives at the Rokupa wharf, a densely populated fishing community where thousands of people live in makeshift homes built with mud and corrugated metal sheets.

“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.