Friends of the Pan-African Catholic Network Inc.

The Pan African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network has started a campaign to end Human Trafficking by 2030! By 2023, an estimated 6.04 million people had been trafficked from Africa; hence the campaign in the entire continent to end this and have all live in freedom and dignity as human beings.

Sr Leonida's message asking for your support

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This advocacy is inspired by the message of Pope Francis in Fratelli Tutti where he says that “we cannot be indifferent to suffering; we cannot allow anyone to go through life as an outcast” (FT, 68). In the many wars in Africa particularly in Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Northern Uganda and Central African Republic, and the asymmetrical warfare in the African Sahel, many young girls have been forced into marriages to warlords, raped, killed, and discarded. We also have the cases of young girls who are brought from the rural areas to work as domestic servants in big cities like Nairobi, Mombasa, Kampala, Lagos, Abidjan, Harare etc who end up being sexually abused and violated by their masters or mistresses.

Challenged by these sad realities, Sr Leonida and her team of nuns and social workers, lawyers, educationists and psychologists who work with her are committed to fighting for these girls, helping to rehabilitate them, heal their hidden wounds, teach them new skills for re-entry into society, and thus restore their dignity and humanity. It is also a fight that her team is waging against powerful interest groups and criminal networks who will do any and everything to evade the law and to harm those who are working by night and day to dismantle this criminal gang; expose their nefarious activities and conscientize African communities, countries, religious and political leaders on the need to embrace this fight as the most important fight of our times. Unless we stop the abuse and violation of our young people in Africa, there is no future for the continent.