Women Against Violence and Exploitation in Society-Sierra Leone (WAVES-SL) in collaboration with SOCFIN Agricultural Company （SAC） engaged on four days training at Malen Chiefdom, Pujehun District, Southern Sierra Leone.
The training targeted key stakeholders lower and upper communities, key staff from the Nine Quarters, Six Divisions and Ten Departments. Overall participants to reach 280, and directly reached 260.
During these engagements various topics were discussed namely: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Preventing Sexual Violence and Rape, and Legal Implications of Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Harassment （GBV/SH） and Child Protection in Sierra Leone.
Two of the trainings were done in Sahn Town, and the other two out of Sahn Town (Taninahun community and at SAC’s Mill site, close to Kortumahun Community).
The two set-days training were for community-based stakeholders specifically, and the other two set-days for SAC’s staffers and their spouses
Objectively, the training looks at collectively unknotting the historical and structural inequalities in power relations as rooted through the practices and acceptability of Gender-Based Violence/Sexual Harassment (GBV/SH), Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in communities and homes either blindly or wilfully; identify means/methods of prevention; Increase knowledge on Legal implications of GBV/SH and Child Protection; and expand reporting on GBV/SH, Sexual Exploitation and abuse of Children by using the national referral pathways mechanism; and SAC’s Gender Committee. 
