Vulnerable children's population growing

Children studying under a street light PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
Children studying under a street light PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

The acting deputy director of community development in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Gomolemo Tselakgopo said her ministry realised the growing numbers of vulnerable children in Botswana.

Speaking at the ongoing Child Rights Coalition Meeting in Gaborone today, she explained that children were exposed to various vulnerabilities due to, among other things, poor parenting skills, alcoholism, violence, living in child-headed households.

“The National Situation Analysis on Orphans and Vulnerable Children (2008) identified 30.6% of children are vulnerable as a result of living in households where no one was gainfully employed. In the era we live in, both the boy and girl child are at equal risk of vulnerability; they are at equal risk for sexual abuse, engagement in transactional and intergenerational sex and many other factors,” she said.

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