TZANEEN: Celebrating Child Protection Week
STOP Trafficking took to educating learners about their rights and how to defend themselves.
A non-government organisation, STOP Trafficking, took Child Protection Week head on and dived into raising awareness about the type of things that lead to children being unsafe.
During the Child Protection Week that took place from Monday, June 3 until Friday, June 7, STOP had the privilege of presenting a body safety program called ‘Valuable to Jesus’ at Larrieland (Laerskool Tzaneen) Gr R’s and Noah’s Ark children’s home as well as Traffic Proof for seniors.
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The organisation tackled the subject of pornography and human trafficking as a way to raise awareness for the cause.
“Pornography freely available on the internet has fueled sexual perversion and pedophelic fantasies, making children vulnerable and targets for abuse and exploitation. Therefore they need to be empowered and given back the authority over their own bodies, being able to say NO confidently and aggressively when approached by someone wanting to touch them inappropriately,” stated Corinne Sandenbergh.
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“Human trafficking is one of the most profitable organised crimes on the face of the earth and children are the most gullible and vulnerable. Internet access for many children and young people has opened up a highway for predators, looking for innocent ‘fresh meat’ and not only the poor and vulnerable are at risk. Our next generation need powerful tools which the previous generation never needed to protect and empower themselves against human trafficking and pedophelic perversion being fueled by pornography,” she continued.
She further exclaimed that as an NGO that is set on tackling human trafficking, they managed to successfully put their message across and that the response they got from the learners, caregivers and teachers was a magnificent one which left them adament that children will now be less vulnerable to predators.
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Sandenbergh has send a very big thank you to the local VLU (Vroue Landbou Unie) branches for the knitting of the beautiful little dolls which were handed to every child.
This was done in order to explain to them that they are precious in Gods eyes, unique and wonderfully and fearfully made and last but not least, they are not for sale.
