Knowledge helps us to learn and understand what is happening around us and how children get affected and what can we do to help them. As we gain more knowledge, we learn from it and help us to make a strong advocate of child rights, Manish Mathur, Officer in-Charge UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh speaking at closure of youth meeting of change loomers in Harda on
Thursday.
This was a 3-day meet of selected young people who would be ‘change loomers’ ie youth leaders who would pick up projects in their selected areas on key themes of child rights. The meet was organised by Synergy NGO with support from UNICEF.
Change loomers is a leadership project which helps build their leaders ship skills and understanding of child rights so that they can take up project on child rights. There are 18 selected youth leaders from Harda through a process and would advocate and support for making child rights in reality at ground.
As part of their process they went through two workshops, one was to draw out project and second one which closed today was a development learning workshop to understand their self, child rights, and three themes of child rights new born care, sanitation ad school education.
They were guided by Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist, UNICEF, Nagesh Patidar, WASH officer UNICEF, Dr Sourabh Saxena, Consultant New born care, Ajay Pandit, Vimal Jat, from Synergy, NGO and Shradha Rawat, Resource Person from Indore. Government Officials from Education department also participated in the meet and guided the participants.
These youth leaders after training would be mentored by support from experts and would be taking up projects in the field which include promoting education, preventing drop out, using sports or music and painting to promote education and prevent drop out, to help reduce discrimination, new born care and promoting sanitation.