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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