Kenyan Catholic Diocese Hopes to Instil Child Safeguarding Culture among Highly Traditional, Vastly Muslim Communities

Kenyan Catholic Diocese Hopes to Instil Child Safeguarding Culture among Highly Traditional, Vastly Muslim Communities

Protecting children and vulnerable adults among the communities that the Catholic Diocese of Garissa in Kenya serve has always been a difficult task owing to the strong traditions of the communities that have “their own way” of handling cases of abuse. According to Fr. Fredrick Namasaka, a Priest ministering in Garissa Diocese, who participated in the just-ended child safeguarding training in the Kenyan Episcopal See, communities under the pastor

Diana Manzo Oaxaca, Oax.- For activist Ayuuk Filadelfo Desiderio Aldaz, naming and making visible sexual abuse and orphanhood in indigenous communities is also a defense of the territory. Originally from the Ayuuk community of Estancia de Morelos in the municipality of Santiago Atitlán, Oaxaca, and as a survivor of sexual abuse in his childhood, Filadelfo pointed out that [...] The post Name sexual abuse and orphanhood in indigenous communities …