Child Protection

^{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. 

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.