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Mamou, Guinée

ISS-WA trains about twenty members of the African Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY) of the Republic of Guinea in community accompaniment.

West Africa has a huge shortage of social workers to provide adequate responses to the social problems of the population, especially in rural areas. In order to reduce this gap and to promote a better protection of children and young people, the International Social Service West Africa (ISS-WA) has opted for the training of informal community actors, they have the advantage of living in the communities and being close to the populations. The AMWCY represents a group of key community actors in this strategy of the SSI-WA.

In this sense, the capacities of about twenty members of the Movement were strengthened by the ISS-WA from 11 to 13 May in Mamou, a town in the Fouta-Djalon region of the Republic of Guinea. The trained Working Children and Young Workers (WCYs) will now be able to better monitor their vulnerable peers in the family or at school, etc., and identify those who are transnationally mobile or at risk of mobility in their locality, for their care within the West African Network for the Protection of Children (WAN).

They are also responsible for setting up in the coming months a Safepark in the town of Mamou, to support their younger brothers and sisters through regular leisure and educational activities. The Safepark, in the context of the RAO, is a community and secure space for development, where children and young people of a locality have the opportunity to play, to be listened to about their difficulties, to receive advice, to be made aware of their rights but also their duties. The Safepark is also an excellent means of monitoring children/youth who are mobile and reintegrated into the environment in which it is located.