 | Provides the initial point where it is expected that up to 1,000 children living on the streets will be identified. Many are provided counselling and 50 will be withrawn from the streets annually. The Town Outreach Centre also serves as the hub for the HIV/AIDS campaign known as Mobile Street Children Arts against AIDS (MAAA) is the project which seeks to empower street children as peer educators to address children about their rights to resist sexual abuse, and in so doing to awaken civil society and the government to the growing problem of sexual abuse in homes, schools and the community. The preparation for this program started early 2004 reaching some 24 villages in the Coast Region.
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