A Child Advocacy Centre to provide services to children who have been physically and sexually abused will begin operation next month.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Thursday to formalise the partnership between local non-governmental organisations Forward Guyana and ChildLink Inc and the Human Services Ministry-run Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) for the operation of the facility.
The centre would be the first of its kind in the Caribbean, according to Forward Guyana, which yesterday announced that it will begin receiving referrals