Children’s inability to organize themselves or to form unions and their lack of awareness of their rights, lead to their exploitation, and they see the status quo as bleak and without a future and so they are asking for help in improving their situation and They are specifically asking for government and NGOs intervention as they “are citizens of this nation”.
 Protocols and policies protecting children have not been updated in several years, and almost no social welfare professionals are active in Government to take up their statutory duties due to lack of resources, and The result is an increasing number of vulnerable children who are living alone, caring for large family networks and working in unsafe practices to try to bring their families a form of livelihood, all by themselves.
Continued capacity shortages within national social welfare and justice for children systems is also impacting on data collection with the result that many vulnerable remain “invisible” to child protection service delivery.​



Sincerely,



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​Brenald Chinyowa
​Founder & President of Ray of Hope