By Mike ALADENIKA.
A Benin based humanitarian and Non governmental organisation arm of the Apostlic church of Nigeria, The New Apostolic Center for Development, NCD,
has established a referral and official desk to handle Human Trafficking, Sexual Assault, Gender Based Violence among other societal vices in Benin city.
This was disclosed by a member of the Board of Trustees( Bot), New Apostolic Center for Development, NCD, Mr oriakhi Victor, while briefing Newsmen about the workings of the faith based organization, as it wind-up the six months awareness project which focuses on preventing Trafficking in persons and responding to Gender based violence.
According to Mr oriakhi, "the Project activities were built around collaboration with government agencies, CSOs, journalists and others, capacity building around legal framework on human trafficking, GBV as well as government response, extensive public awareness activities involving town hall meeting, development and airing of radio jingles, featuring on radio to discuss the issues, design and dissemination of newsletter, the sharing of podcast on social media, production of IEC materials and press conference.
The BOT member of the Faith Based Group said "the goal of the project was to increase awareness on the danger of trafficking in persons and improve response to sexual and gender based violence in Edo State."
He listed the objectives of the project
to include but not limited to strengthening the capacity of women led organizations and vulnerable groups ; understanding the provisions of relevant laws that respond to trafficking in persons and GBV in Edo State; undertaking public awareness activities to prevent trafficking in person and increase awareness on the role of the sexual assault referral Centre (Vivian Centre) in Edo States."
Mr oriakhi Victor, however gave the organization a pass mark , "We are glad to inform you that the project has largely achieved the purpose for which it was designed and has also thrown up emerging issues that will require follow up actions by civil society organizations, media and the public."
"The training and extensive public awareness activities have led to more citizens accessing the Edo State Sexual Assault Referral Centre (Vivian Centre) to report GBV cases. Record obtained from the Vivian Centre showed that the centre recorded more cases between June and November 2022 when NCD implemented the preventing human trafficking and responding to gender based violence in Edo State project.
"As at the time the project commenced in June 2022, the centre had received only about 600 cases since inception. But by November 24", 2022, the number of cases reported to the centre increased to 1079 and some of the victims confirmed that they knew about the centre from the radio programme. This shows that our training and public awareness initiatives got to the targetted audience. As we speak now, NCD’s radio jingle is still running on KU FM, Benin City, by 7.56am and 4.56pm daily, till about early January 2023.
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