Child Protection Week: JMPD outreach unite awareness on child abuse
Children need to feel safe around adults.
SUNRIDGE Play School participated in a Child Protection Walk on May 30 staged by the JMPD Community Outreach Unit, in association with Child Protection Week, in Ridgeway.
The agenda was based on child protection in the society and educating the learners on how to react when they are being abused. A JMPD officer, Nassem Sathar, presented a play for the learners to show them which parts of their body are private and that those are the parts nobody must be allowed to touch. The play was fun and exciting for the learners but, most importantly, it was educational.
Rifle Street was blockaded for about 30 minutes as learners, the JMPD and stakeholders such as the SAPS Sector 1, CPF and ADC took the protection walk to the streets. The learners kept on chanting ‘stop child abuse’.
“The South is faced with so many accounts of child and women abuse. We hope this awareness will make those being abused realise they must speak up. We as the school decided to be involved in this initiative because the society needs to get the wake-up call that women and children are struggling to live freely. The JMPD and community stakeholders are currently trying to ensure women and children in the South are safe, we will continue working together with the JMPD and community stakeholders,” said Rafeeqah Munshi, school principal.
Sathar said: “As it is Child Protection Week, we are informing the people of the South to protect our children against rape, killings and fights. The most important thing is to send the message to adults to stop abusing the children. Our children are abused verbally in schools, physically in the community and emotionally in the society. We hope this walk will help spread the message.”
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