By Andres Lopez | Communications Specialist
During October, a series of talks were held in two cities in Uruguay to create awareness about child sexual exploitation. Officers from the Ministry of Tourism, together with representatives from Youth For Christ/Claves travelled to the cities of Salto and Fray Bentos to talk about public policies to prevent child sexual exploitation, as well as to present the experience with the "Uruguay against child sexual exploitation" campaign.
Talks were given to community referents and to high school students. Many questions were answered about the current legal framework regarding child sexual exploitation and about ways to report these situations.
These awareness talks to high school students are particularly important as a way to empower them and help them talk and report these situations, whether it's happening to them or to someone they know.
After these talks, students were eager to get involved in the campaign. In fact, many of them will participate in the next campaign activities.
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
