"Anti-child trafficking campaign in Uganda taken to schools"

In a remote corner of Uganda a team of American volunteers are distributing books to children, but this is no ordinary literacy drive; their aim is to protect children at risk of being trafficked into prostitution, forced labour and even for use in sacrifices.

Their work is part of a project by the Interior Ministry's anti-human trafficking task force to reach out to poor communities vulnerable to child trafficking by promoting literacy. Children in Uganda are trafficked and forced to work in cattle herding, stone quarrying and brick making. Girls and boys are lured from poor families in rural areas to the city and exploited in prostitution, or abducted to fight in rebel ranks, said Agnes Igoye, deputy national coordinator of the task force.