Over 300,000 Tanzanian children saved from unsafe environment

DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- The government of Tanzania has saved at least 335,971 children from unsafe environments, including the worst forms of child labor, human trafficking, and violence against children, between July 2022 and April 2023, an official said Tuesday.

Nandera Mhando, the commissioner for social welfare in the Ministry of Community Development, Gender, Women and Special Groups, said out of the saved children, 167,337 were girls and 168,634 were boys.