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High prevalence of sex tourism in Zanzibar has spurred a five year National Action Plan to end violence against children and women on the island.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A drive to vaccinate more than 9 million children against polio has been launched this week in four countries in southern and eastern Africa after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi.
The urgent vaccination campaign has started in Malawi where drops of the inoculation are being placed in the mouths of children across the country, including in the capital, Lilongwe, and the country’s largest city, Blantyre.
In this piece for the Huffington Post, founder of World Future Council Jakob von Uexkull, writes about Zanzibar's Children's Act of 2011 and how it has been implemented and enforced to improve child protection practices in Zanzibar.
Lending a helping hand in countries with poor health infrastructure is usually well intentioned—but it can cause serious harm.
Zanzibar’s Department of Social Welfare has announced a series of policies that it will implement in order to enhance the protection of children in alternative care in Zanzibar, particularly for residential care facilities. These new restrictions and protections come as a response to findings from a joint assessment of the number and nature of residential care institutions in Zanzibar, conducted by the Department of Social Welfare and Save the Children UK, which indicate a “number of inadequacies regarding the establishment and management of those homes.”
The Director of the Department of Social Welfare in Zanzibar, Wahida Maabad Mohamed, recently presented findings of the ‘Rapid Assessment of the Children Living in Children’s Homes in Zanzibar’ which was undertaken from January to mid-February 2016. The aim of the survey was to collect data on children's homes in Pemba and Unguja.
Discussing the findings, Ms. Mohamed noted that the children were observed to face depression, poor school performance, cruelty, abuse, and stigma. As a result of the findings, she declared the centres as unsafe for children and said new…