Reported by, Nsor Paul Mensah.
Ohenewaa human rights Advocacy outdoor new educational materials that have carefully prepared as part of her Preventive Crime Advocacy to help solve this National crisis.
The Abuse Book for Children titled “SAY NO” to Child, Abuse Safe Book for Children from age 4 to 9 years.
According to Mary Ohenewaa Afful, human rights lawyer and founder, The focus is primarily on the high rate of domestic abuse in marriages and Intimate partner violence, the high rate of defilement cases or incidences.
sexual intercourse with children below 16 years and other domestic and sexual violence cases in both children and adults leading up to evere legal and psychological consequences.
She said, In most cases, death, permanent injury or disability, insanity and many other health related problems and mental health disorders become the end result.
"How long can we continue neglecting this MAJOR CRISIS? And it seems to me that no one,"I mean no one seems to be interested or bothered about this ‘epidemic’. Are we going to wait till DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSE becomes a ‘PANDEMIC’?.Which i have prepared PREVENTIVE CRIME TRAINING MANUAL for Teachers, Pastors, Tertiary Institutions etc.
We also out-doored a booklet to help adults identify abuse in children and its mandatory reporting guidelines. It has been six months now.
She review that, On November 16, 2022 too, my organization had a free training for Ministers and their Spouses at the Ga Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. And Ohenewaa Advocacy has done a lot of School Advocacies in the various Educational Districts.
Now we are meeting the media because we are outdooring two additional Preventive Crime Educational Materials that will cater for other categories not listed in our earlier Preventive Crime Programme And these are flyers that contains some specific Criminal Offences that bothers on Domestic and Sexual Violence/ Abuse and their Maximum Jail Terms.
Human Rights Lawyer Mary Ohenewaa Afful is therefore seeking for support from everyone and anyone to come on board and support this beautiful project.
Am seeking to print and distribute at least 10 million copies of the Preventive Crime Flyers and also 1 million copies of the Abuse Book for Children.
This is a national assignment. I need support from Government, Politicians, Religious Bodies, Corporate Organizations, Donor Agencies, International Organizations, and the People of Ghana.