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Hyder
abad 9 November: ‘Child Rights are Human Rights, and dear Children, we care for you’. This was the focus of a series of training programmes and publicity campaigns conducted during the first week of November at Don Bosco Navajeevan, Hyderabad. These included the Hub level training for the web application HLK – Child Miss, Human Rights Education for government school teachers, and the release of posters and T-shirts for the Child Safety Net Campaign. These programmes took place in the context of the 25th year of the approval of the UN convention on child rights (1989 – 2014).
Seventeen Child Rights activists had a three day advanced training programme from 5 to 7 November on the web application, www.childmiss.net. After all the struggles with the alpha and beta version of the application, now it is running smoothly and the participants were clear about the flow of the programme.
Working on the data available, the participants started generating different reports about the type of children we reach out to, their needs ad the various services that could be offered to them. The preliminary data for the year covers about 4000 children.
While the training programme on the web application was going on, Fr. Thomas Pallithanam from the people’s Action for Rural Awakening (PARA), and his team launched the Human Rights Education (HRE) for Telangana State, with the collaboration of State Education Department. The teachers had the possibility and the realization of a shift from the teacher oriented education to the child focused education. Oota, the Provincial Centre for Psycho-Social Service facilitated the various interactions of these events. The campaign materials such as the T-shirts with child rights slogans and the poster on Child Safety Net attracted the attention of all, particularly the teachers.
