Humanist
Association for Peace and Social Tolerance Advancement (HAPSTA) upped efforts
to fight superstition and eradicate the stigmatisation of children accused of
witchcraft by expanding the frontier of knowledge of her staff and the alert
volunteers at a training which took place at the CRARN/HAPSTA Transit Centre
Eket on Friday 16th August 2013. The staff and the alert volunteers were trained
on strategies of sensing and identifying dangerous situation(s) threatening to
the life and wellbeing of the children.
According
to one of the organisers of the training, Mr. Ayobami Ojedokun, the need for
increasing the capacity of the personnel is expedient at this time due to the
changing patterns of child abuse and witch labeling observed in recent times;
therefore, the volunteers needed to be kept abreast of time in order to
understand the changes. The training had in attendance trainers who are social
workers, experts in science education and scholars in the field of culture;
among whom are Adegoke Damilola, ’Tola Layode, Adeyemi Ademowo, Oladipo
Temidayo among others.
The
annual staff/alert volunteers training is funded by HAMU, Norway.
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