Gambia: CPA Condemns Child Scavenging

The Child Protection Alliance CPA, has condemned the act of child scavengers in the country.

The CPA reaction came in the wake of concerns raised regarding the rampant scavenging by children, at the Bakoteh Dumpsite despite the smoldering condition of the site. Children as young as ten years, can be spotted scavenging at the site. According the site supervisor the children come their every day to find something from the rubbish; that he drives them out all the time to no avail because the site does not a have proper security or fencing. The supervisor said the children come from the community of Manjai and environs and believes that some of them even live close to the site.

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