Child Protection

^{Chairman of the Kailahun District Council in his office. February 2022. Photo Credit: Alpha Jalloh, Save the Children}

Kailahun District Chairman, Sahr A.K. Lamin has made a commitment to Save the Children to end child marriage in the district by establishing a district committee for the implementation of the new Foundations, Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Rights project funded by Global Alliance Canada in the district. 

_{Top-Bottom: High Table: Irish Aid, Save the Children, Minister of Gender and Children's Affairs, Inter-religuous Council and Paramount Chief Kailahun}

_{^{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.