CHILD PROTECTION WEEK 2024 

GUESTS:  MEGAN BRIEDE - PROGRAMME DIRECTOR AT SAVE THE CHILDREN SOUTH AFRICA

Child Protection Week aims to create awareness of children’s rights with the intent to stop the cycle of neglect, abuse, violence and exploitation of children. National Child Protection Week this year is commemorated from 28 May to 4 June 2024.

However, statistics show that millions of children are living a life where they are anything but protected. By the age of 17, six in every 10 South African children will undergo at least one adverse childhood experience – defined as stressful and potentially traumatic situations that occur during childhood and adolescence and threaten their safety, security, trust or bodily integrity.

This year alone, we’ve heard horrific stories of children being brutally killed and some have gone missing. Now that this week has gone, do we go back to our regular lives and continue to let our children fall prey to violent crimes?