1,000 Migrant Children Support Anti-Child Trafficking Day
On global anti-child trafficking day, Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai-Burma border hosted an event called, To stop child trafficking, invest for the children’s future. The event was was attended by as many as 1,000 children from local migrant schools.
“This event was held to raise awareness about child trafficking to alert students and migrant workers who attended the event to be aware and not to fall victim themselves and work to combat child trafficking,” an organizer of the campaign, Min Aye Min Naing from Burma Act Network, told Karen News.
The event started at 9am in the morning and ran until 12noon and was organized by Burma Act Network and humanitarian groups based in Mae Sot. Children attending the event were from more than 20 migrant schools around the Mae Sot area. The program included a question and answers section, role-playing activities, and distribution of educational materials.
Saw Min Htoo who attended the event found the materials educational and helpful.
“I want to say thank you for hosting this event. I learnt about different kinds of child trafficking that I have never heard of. I also feel that all of us should work together to end child trafficking.”
The Migrant Children Network said that about 1.2 million children in the world are starving, suffering from wars and natural disasters, facing family and community problems, have little knowledge about human trafficking and the practice is widespread in South-East Asia.
Myanmar Director of Myanmar Equality, U Aung Myo Min said.
“It is awful that our country is one of the six countries involved in serious human trafficking. According to the US government’s human trafficking record, it has gotten worse over the last 10 years.”
