BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS. (PHOTOS).

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 BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS  Benue State has taken a major step toward strengthening child protection and social welfare services with the graduation of 60 Auxiliary Social Workers (ASWs) trained to serve vulnerable children and families at the grassroots. The graduation ceremony, held on Wednesday, marked the successful completion of a programme jointly supported by the Benue State Government, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and the Benue State Bureau for International Cooperation and Development (BICD). Speaking at the event themed “Building Community Resilience Through Professional Auxiliary Social Work,” the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Hon. Mrs. Theresa Apochi-Ikwue, described the initiative as a strategic response to gaps in child protection services across the state. She said the newly trained ASWs would...

THERE IS SHORTAGE OF FOOD AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO EBOLA INFECTED VILLAGES IN LIBERIA.

Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia August 17, 2014.  REUTERS-2Tango                 According to Tarnue Karbbar,a worker for charity plan international based in Lofa County said ''In Boya,in northern Liberia,a man named Joseph Gbembo who caught Ebola and survived says he is struggling to raise 10 children under five years old and he is also supporting five widows after nine members of his family were killed by the virus.Fearful of catching Ebola themselves,his neighbors refused to speak with him and blamed him for bringing the virus to the village.If sufficient medication,food and water are not in place,the community will force their way out to fetch food and this could lead further spread of the virus''.To try to control the Ebola epidemic spreading through West Africa.Liberia has quarantined remote villages at the epicenter of the virus,evoking the ''Plague villagers'',shutting them off from the outside world.With few food and medical supplies,getting in,many abandoned villagers face a stark choice to stay where they are and risk death or skip quarantine.                                                                                                                                      Photo

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