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Charity Helps Fight Child-Trafficking in Malawi, as Country Grapples to End
Vice

Lameck Masina

   BLANTYRE, MALAWI - Malawi is struggling to end child trafficking,
   despite existing legislation intended to stop the problem. The
   Trafficking in Persons Act, which was enacted four years ago, also
   mandated the creation of a special fund to support victims. But efforts
   to reinforce the law remain a challenge.

   A teenager, who we'll call Maggie, recalls the day back in 2018 when
   she says she and other two girls were trafficked from Neno district in
   southern Malawi to work as prostitutes in the commercial capital,
   Blantyre.

   Maggie says their families were misled by two strangers who came to
   their village, pretending that a woman was seeking to recruit girls as
   housemaids.

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