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 | Dec 5, 2018
Child Rights - spreading the knowledge

By Vasudeva Sharma | Executive Director, CRT

With the experience of organising programmes at Dharawada(July) and Mangaluru (Aug) districts, we moved to one in south Karnataka, Mandya (19^th – 20^th Sept) and two in north Karnataka, Kalburgi (3^rd – 4^th Oct) and Bidar (30^th – 31^st Oct).

While in Mandya local enthusiasts, Mr. Lakshmi Prasanna and Mr. Ashwathanarayana, took the initiative to organise the programme at VIBSETI, Mandya, 42 participants from Mandya, Mysuru, Chamarajanagara districts took part in the programme. Along with NGO representatives and students, we also had people from District Child Protection Unit. The programme was inaugurated by the Chairperson of Child Welfare Committee and the District Child Protection Officer, Mandya. In the two-day progamme the teams apart form discussing on child rights, showed special interest on knowing about right to education and combating the growing incidents of female feticide. We got a special bonus with the presence of Mr. Rajanna, former Chairman of the Disability Commission who described about the need for building rights perspective to address disability issues. Mr Vasudeva Sharma and Mr. Kalakappa were the resource persons handling the sessions.

The next programme was at Kalburgi University with a large number of students and NGO representatives. Although the programme was meant for selected 50 students of Social Work, the organisers felt that the programme should be reaching a large number. As a result, we had about 110 students, research scholars and teachers of Social Work and Sociology taking part in the programme. Mr. Bhavani Singh, District President of District Working journalists and Dr. Malipatil, Chairman and HOD Dept of Social Work inaugurated the training. While we the orgnisers and facilitators were wondering about the reach and effectiveness, the participants said that they are keen to know about the subject. What transcribed at the end was a wonderful experience. Students determined to fight out child marriage, child labour, child trafficking and particularly child sexual abuse. Thanks to heads of dept of Social Work and Sociology, Kalburgi University for facilitating the orgnaising of the programme. Mr. Vasudeva Sharma and Ms. Rajashree took the responsibility of conducting the sessions.

In the same month we went to Bidar. Thanks to Mr. Puneeth of Samrudhi Charitable Trust. With 40 strong members coming from Bidar, Kalburgi, Raichuru and Uttara Kannada the programme succeeded in motivating the young participants to appreciate the status of children from child rights perspective and take action. Along with the resource team of Mr. Vasudeva Sharma and Mr. Nagasimha, local experts and Child Welfare Committee members took part in facilitation of discussions.

The next programme would be held in the month of December at Chikkaballapura.

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Sep 7, 2018
Report of 2nd Crowd Funded Child Rights Training

By VASUDEVA SHARMA | Executive Director, CRT, Bengaluru, India

The team at the end of the training

After a successful programme held at Dharawada, Karnataka with 50 participants, the second round of the crowd funded Child Rights Training programme was held at Mangaluru with another set of 50 enthusiasts.

The programme was held at ISD, CODP, Padavu, Mangaluru in collaboration with PADI, Mangaluru an NGO working on child rights and specifically on child education issues. The programme was inaugurated by Justice Kadaluru Sathyanarayanacharya, Chief Judicial and Sessions Judge, Dakshina Kannada. Justice Mallanagowda, Senior Civil Justice and Member of the District Legal Services Authority, Dakshina Kannada was the chief guest. Vasudeva Sharma, Executive Director CRT, Bengaluru and Renni D'Sowza presided over the programme.

The participants were from various NGOs and Govt departments from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Mysuru, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan. For all the participants the training was something new on issues related ot child rights and were eager to know about the details of child rights. Very interestingly the group was very articulative and had hundreds of questions and expectations. The participatory method of the training facilitated by Vasudeva Sharma and Nagasimha helped the participants to open up and share their opinion, ideas and also raise some basic questions related to child rights.

The two days programme, as shared by the participants helped them to get a clear idea about child rights beyond survival, protection, development and participation rights of children. They could also relate with various programmes and projects of the Govt and international agencies. The participants said that they would go back to their organisations and disseminate the learning.

The programme ended with a group game that lead to a commitment statement to uphold the rights of all children. Each participant was given a participation certificate appreciating their efforts, interest in upholding rights of children. The participants thanked all the donors who have contributed to make this series of programmes a possibility through GlobalGiving and ImpactGuru platforms.

The next programme will be held at Mandya on 18th and 19th Sept. 2018

Inauguration

An animated discussion in the larger group

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Photographs of the Mangaluru training on Child Rights Aug. 2018

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Aug 7, 2018
2nd Child Rights Training, 8-9 Aug 2018, Mangaluru

By Vasudeva Sharma | Executive Director, Child Rights Trust

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