Parents, Guardians Told Why Children Leave Home
Children often leave their homes because the love they longed for no longer exists at home.
Unaisi Mateiwai, a Police officer based at the Fiji Police Force Sexual Offences Unit (SOU) made this comment while speaking to women of Vadravadra Village on Gau Island in the Lomaiviti Group.
Ms Mateiwai was part of the Rights, Empowerment and Cohesion (REACH) programme tour of Gau.
REACH Fiji is one of Government’s innovative methods to improve service delivery to Fijians.
Representatives from the Legal Aid Commission, Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation the Fiji Police Force are touring villages such as Vadravadra, Gau.
Ms Mateiwai called on parents and guardians to exercise family time.
She said home was no longer a safe space to raise a child because even the most scared place had been a crime scene for rape.
She said most children who had been abandoned were on the streets because love did not exist at home.
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