Churches Scale Up Child Protection

[The Herald] If poverty has the face of a woman, as a development practitioner once said, then it possibly has the back of a child. In an escalating range of scenarios, children are ceding their dignity to generate income for modern day slave drivers. Worse violations, however, thrive behind the veils of religion, family and culture, institutions ideally fitted to maximise the welfare of every child but are now being twisted to destroy it.The abuses suffered by children whom retrogressive culture and poverty has marked ......