Child Protection India Project #33702

Help protect 5000 children through 180 activists

by Child Rights Trust

Help protect 5000 children through 180 activists

Project Report | Oct 21, 2019
197 NGO personnel, Parents, Children and Students oriented about child rights and child protection

By Nagamani and Vasudeva Sharma | Project leaders

The team beaming with the training certificate.

Child Rights Trust sensitized 197 individuals in the last three months through 5 Child Rights programmes in three districts of Karnataka.

The programms were organized in collaboration with universities, NGOs and educational institutions: Belgavi (4^th& 5^th October 2019); Bengaluru (28^th& 29^th August 2019 and 6^th July 2019) and Kolar (4^th & 5^th July 2019 and 3^rd October 2019).

In all these programmes participatory methods were used to involve the participants that included NGO personnel, students of social work and also representatives of Govt and initiate discussion on the status of children in the districts. Examples of interventions were taken from the participants and they were supplemented by the facilitators with statistics, programmatic information and the interventions that can be taken up. In all the programmes apart from live case studies short films were also used to elicit discussion. The participants were driven to identify the discrimination that prevails in the families, society and also in service delivery. The UNCRC articles were shared with the participants while bringing in relevance to the existing Acts such as The Prohibition of Child Marriages Act (PCMA), The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act (JJA) and etc. Many students have shown interest to take the issues related to child rights as their dissertation topics and also to get involved in community work.

All these trainings were organized in collaboration with local NGOs and Colleges also got the support from government departments by involving officers from the Dept of Women and Child Development, Education and Social Welfare.

The trainings also made it a point to introduce child protection mechanisms, programms for empowerment, schemes and encouraged participants to actively get involved in addressing the child rights violations and also report to ChildLine 1098 and / or to the police.

In Nov. we will be involved in big time observing Child Rights Week and 30 years of UNCRC. Will get back to you soon with our new plans to conduct some more trainings on Child Rights.

Group watching a film to appreciate child rights

Participants in an exercise

A presentation in progress

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Jul 5, 2019
Reaching out to new areas to uphold CR

By Vasudeva Sharma N.V. | Executive Director

Mr. Piush visited CRT

Completing a year with 12 programmes on creating child rights awareness among grassroots level workers is a rich experience. We could reach out to more than 400 people in the given time while crossing our own target. Thanks to the generous donors and the fund-raising platform GlobalGiving and ImpactGuru.

In the reporting period CRT conducted programmes concentrating on SDGs-Sustainable Development Goals from Child Rights Perspective. We invested time in understanding the concepts and also discussing with the concerned about how and why we can reach them out to various stakeholders. In this regard we had extensive discussion with the SDG Cell of Government of Karnataka and other NGOs in the field.

We got a big boost from GlobalGiving in the form of visit by GG representative Mr. Piush Narang, India Field Traveller 2019. Our preparation for GG representative gave the dividends! We could make an elaborate presentation to Mr. Piush about the ideas, the interventions, workshops, trainings and the outcome. The best part of the whole discussion is that Mr. Piush was attentive and heard us fully and gave his appreciations. The visit by GG representative is a big boost to us in several forms: there is somebody who is wanting to know what we have done, there is some appreciations to our work and there is a responsible person or group who are interested in taking the news from us to the donors. The visit also helped us to prepare with photographs, reports and credentials from the other stakeholders.

Mr. Piush gave us several ideas on what we can do further with GG in the coming days.

We conducted an interactive session on conducting child rights advocacy, training and sharing the process of knowledge building about child rights with a team from Orissa.

We have also worked during this period reading and critiquing the National Education Policy proposed by GOI in 2019. Soon we will be sending our recommendations to GoI. Secondly the second round of trainings on Child Rights will begin from July starting from Kolar and Bagalakote.

A interactive session on advocacy for child rights

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Apr 5, 2019
216 more activists trained in the early three months of 2019

By Vasudeva Sharma | Executive Director, Child Rights Trust

The trainings on child rights were conducted in four more districts in Karnataka, India. In Kalburgi, Chikkaballapura, Madikeri and Chamarajanagara districts programmes were conducted with the collaboration of local NGOs and Govt departments.

Belagavi (30-31 Jan-65); Gadag (Feb 1-2-40); Kalburgi (22-23 Feb-26); Kodagu (March 6-7-30); Magadi (15-16 March-20) and Chamarajanagara (21-22 March-35).

In Kalburgi, a programme with 25 students of Social Work of the Central University (January 2019) helped the budding social workers to get a clarity on the subject and the need for social work intervetnions with respect to children. At Chikkaballapura in the month of Feb.2019 a programme was conducted to reach out 35 members of NGOs, Government and schools. In Kodagu the training was organised with the facilitatio by the Dept of Women and Child Development in the month of March reaching out to 45 enthusiasts. In the same month a programme was conducted in Chamarajanagara in collaboration with ODP a local organisation with 40 participants.

In all 145 men and women (largely youth) are reched to take cognisance of the situation of chlidren and also get involved in follow up actions. The most significant part of the programmes is the involvement of Government officers of the District Child Protection Unit, advocates and students of social work.

Government, SDG and Children

With the Government personnel it is becoming increasing important to orient them about the NGO interventions in upholding the rights of the children in the light of SDGs-Sustainable Development Goals. Keeping this in mind three workshops were conducted in the following districts Kalburgi (22 Feb); Gadag (23-26 Feb), Belagavi (3 Feb) and Haveri (16 March) reaching out to about 450 personnel. There is more demands for such workshops.

We are going strong with the reach and are looking out to have a sepearate project proposal to conduct SDG trainings in the state. The demand is to reach out to the block / taluk level.

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