By Hannah O'Riordan | Project Leader
Trinity Project is a sustainable development initiative and a grassroots organization advocating for social justice. Trinity Project primarily works to promote the rights of the children and access to birth registration, inheritance, guardianship, and maintenance and child protection. The organisation’s key objectives are to raise awareness on the importance of child protection; to bridge the gap on children’s rights issues between service providers and communities; to identify and act upon a range of children’s rights issues providing legal and psychosocial support.
The project was approached by nearly 150 families regarding birth registration cases, with a total of 212 children without birth certificates in need of support, through office drop in services. The project was approached by a further 108 families regarding 184 birth registration cases, through community based legal advice clinics. This often supported government-led mobile registration services, providing advice and support for more complex cases. In addition to this, the project officers followed up with another 157 cases, advising clients on birth registration through visiting local communities and homes to work with clients at length and intensively on the project, the registration process and the support available to them.
The project also ran 10 sensitisation meetings across Bulawayo, aimed at raising awareness on property and inheritance, maintenance, wills writing, child protection and sexual reproductive health rights. These reached out to 340 people.
This was a key quarter for advocacy, working with service providers and local government to improve services and processes surrounding registration, child protection and children’s rights. Trinity was invited to 15 stakeholders meetings, these meetings were hosted by stakeholders like Department of Social Services and Child Welfare, Department of Women Affairs, National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations, Habakkuk, Emthonjeni, National Aids Council, other NGOs working in similar thematic areas. These meetings were a useful platform to raise awareness, improve services and network. The project also participated in a consortium discussing children’s rights and the Sustainable Development Goals, focused on working with the government to improve child protection and implement steps for positive change.
One key advocacy success was working in collaboration with police force on child protection issues. For instance, the project recently supported a child who had been orphaned and then victim of land-grabbing (having their rightful property and inheritance taken from them due to not having proper legal registration) through a court case, and successfully supported them to gain the legal status to retain the land.
Trinity Project has had another busy and productive quarter, working with individuals and communities to support child protection, child rights and birth registration, but also lobbying service-providers, stakeholders and officials to foster long-term, sustainable change in these areas. Thank you so much for your continued support for this vital project.
By Hannah O'Riordan | Project Leader
By Hannah O'Riordan | Project Leader
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