#KidsTakeOver: Children Interview Head of UNMISS Child Protection Unit, Alfred Orono Orono

The children and young people of South Sudan took over the airwaves today to mark World Children’s Day, giving the future leaders of the country the opportunity to “speak out and be heard”. 

On Miraya Breakfast Show, Malish Lojok and  Alice Jackson, both pupils at St Francis Primary School Juba, Interviewed the Head of the UNMISS Child Protection unit, Alfred Orono Orono. 

Orono said he is confident the revitalized peace agreement will give the children of South Sudan a chance to claim their childhood that was stolen by years of conflict.  

"Two months ago, the government issued a legislation in support of the children on the streets and we work with the government and the parties to the conflict to make sure that children are not recruited into the army, not raped, not killed, not abducted, sexually assaulted and the schools they go to study and hospitals they visit are not attacked and destroyed and that humanitarian access to them is not hindered."

Listen to the interview