MEC for Community Safety and Liaison, Ghishma Barry and her counterpart from Social Development, Honourable Nonkosi Mvana will embark on a joint programme aimed at ridding the streets of children.
The sweep up programme will be done in the Port Elizabeth area and will be a sustainable programme that will also include a number of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The partnership will also include role players from the Department of Education, Correctional Services, South African Police Force, Siyakhathala shelter and Kamvalethu Drop Inn Centre.
The Premier of the Eastern Cape Province, Honourable Noxolo Kiviet pronounced on the need to rid the streets of children and particularly promised to ‘gaol’ MEC Barry if she still found children on the streets in the province. This is the beginning of the long programme to address the challenge and it requires the services of social development and the assistance of law enforcement agencies. This programme will also serve as a build up to the National Children’s Day which will be taking place on the 7 November 2009.
Objectives of the programme are:
* to educate the children about human trafficking
* to encourage the children to go back to school
* to reintegrate the children into social life.
The event will be as follows:
Venue: Protea Child Care Centre
Date: 3 November 2009
Time: 09h45 to 13h00
You are therefore invited to be part of the event.
For more information please contact:
Mzoli Sikukula
Cell: 082 851 9507
Issued by: Department of Safety and Liaison, Eastern Cape Provincial Government
3 November 2009
