Yesterday, Deputy Chief of Mission Elaine French spoke at Sierra Leone’s first national conference on trafficking in persons. An estimated 33% of children aged 5 to 17 in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Province have experienced child trafficking and 36% have experienced child labor, according to new research from the African Programming & Research Initiative to End Slavery (APRIES)
The U.S. government, through the U.S. Department of State Office to Combat and Monitor Trafficking in Persons has committed $7.4 million to help in the fight against child trafficking and child labor in Sierra Leone.
If you or someone you know has been affected by human trafficking, call 134 from any Sierra Leonean cell phone network to get help.
