Tongan government to collect better data on child poverty Featured
'Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil Likiliki, Tonga's Women and Children Crisis Centre
19 May, 2016. Anecdotal evidence of increasing poverty in Nuku'alofa suggests more children are vulnerable to sexual assault, the director of Tonga's Women and Children Crisis Centre says.
A doctor is buying breakfast for about 150 school children twice-a-week in Kolomotu'a and more children are appearing on the streets of the capital selling peanuts.
The Centre's director, Ofa Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki, said sexual predators preyed on children in poverty.
"They are more vulnerable and become more susceptible to physical and sexual violence by people who know that this kid is from a poor background, the kid is struggling and if I offer this kid food or money then it will be easy for me to access sexual violation."
Ofa Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki said the Tongan government needs to collect better data on the plight of the nation's poor children.
RNZI
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Kamata pe meia 'Ofa hono fakaehaua'i e totonu 'ae longa'i fanau. Si'i nofo ta'etamai atu e ki'i fanau, mole 'enau totonu kiha tamai he ngaue 'a 'Ofa. Me'a kuo potopoto'i hono kailangaki'i e kakai kehe, kae 'ikai tomu'a sio hifo ia ki ai mo 'ene me'a na'e fai.
'Oku 'ikai ko ha me'a fo'ou ia 'i Tonga e 'alu ta'ekai pongipongi 'ae fanau 'e ni'ihi ki he ako. Koe to'uako eni 'e fiha na nau fou hake he me'a tatau pea kuo tokolahi faufaua e kakai ai kuo nau ako lelei ma'u e ngaahi mata'itohi pea nau foki mai 'o ngaue'i e pule'anga. Kae tu'u hake koe O.Likiliki 'o tala koe kau ta'ekai pongipongi te nau hoko koe sexual food !!! 'ai a mo fakapikopiko he fasitu'u moe mio'i. -
Ke fuu poto tama Ofa he taumata'u'i e fund mei he Pule'anga ka oku ikai toe fakautuutu ange palopalema oku ke tau'i ke holoki e!
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MRS. LIKILIKI NEEDS TO DO HER OWN SURVEYING...and her own data collection. She receives Government funds to operate her Center. Her organization − although a necessary non-governmental organization (NGO) for the country − we need to be aware of "politically correctness" hysteria created by alarmists and over-zealous "do gooders".
1) I do sympathize and support her organization's mission to protect women and children from egregious domestic violence, including the plight of young girls and women who are victims of Tongan men sexual predators.
2) However, creating hysteria by equating "free breakfast" for school children and "kids selling peanuts" on the streets of Nuku'alofa as causes for children sexual molestation is preposterous.
3) Her good-will efforts in the process, may be telling the world that sexual predators' are tolerated and accepted in Tongan society.
4) On the contrary, as a deterrence in old Tongan society, the male kins of a female victim of sexual abuse would gang up and beat the crap out of the predator; they may kill him in the process. But we live in a "civilized" world now.
5) Political correctness can lead us astray from our duty to respect women and children's right to live, and to receive the same opportunities in life as men do: Freedom to choose a productive standard of living, and a happy life style.