JAMAICA
Jamaica Observer
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – State Minister for Education, Youth and Information, Floyd Green, is encouraging the church to undertake more activities that support the government’s programmes aimed at curbing child abuse.
Speaking at a recent child abuse forum at the Webster Memorial United Church in St Andrew, the state minister said the church’s actions are critical in assisting to create the environment that assures an abused child that “there is somebody they can turn to for assistance”.
Green said child abuse poses a major challenge for Jamaica, as state agencies with responsibility for safeguarding children’s welfare receive an average of 1,200 reports of child abuse each month.
“We are talking about 1,200 children who are in very difficult and trying circumstances who need to be helped,” he added.
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