The voices of children and young people must be heard

Dr Dereje Wordofa, president of SOS Children Village International, on the organsation's attempts to provide child care and the need for intervention at various levels to tackle gender-based violence, child marriage, and abuse of children.

Dr Dereje Wordofa is the fourth president of SOS Children’s Villages in the organisation’s 70-year-old history. Wordofa, who has also served as the Assistant Secretary General of the UN Population Fund, took the helm of the SOS organisation in June 2021. In this interview with the Post’s Mimamsha Dhungel, Wordofa talks about SOS Children Village International’s attempts to provide child care, protection and advocacy and the need for intervention at various levels to tackle gender-based violence, child marriage and abuse of children. Wordofa was in Nepal for a visit in the first week of March.