In a bid to create awareness on new laws related to Child Protection and new imaging trends on HIV and AIDS, the staff of Lesotho Save the Children (LSC) attended a five-day Child Protection and HIV training workshop that was held in Maseru from October 19 to 21, 2011.

The LSC Project Coordinator Miss Kananelo Moholi said the objective of the workshop is to equip participants with new laws to be able to protect vulnerable children.

To mention the few laws that the participants went through are Child Protection and Welfare Act 2011, Trafficking Act 2010 and Education Act 2011. The main topics at the workshop were HIV, immunology, treatment, prevention and new laws related to child protection.

Caption: Sesioana facilitating |Child Protection workshop.

Participants were drawn from Child Help line offices in Quthing and Maseru as well as prospective staff for a new Child Helpline office to be established in Mokhotlong also attended the training.

The participants were also refreshed their counseling skills whereby the emphasis were to encourage counselors not to judge their clients or impose solution for their problems, but more to listen to them and give clients opportunity to provide their own solutions to address their challenges.

The workshop was funded by UNICEF and the participants were drawn from LSC offices. The participants thanked the facilitators and organizers for the orientation into the new laws that will contribute in protecting children in the country.

The child help line project is supported under Round 7 HIV grant with human resource of professional and volunteers’ staff to deal with day to day operations of children.